Succession of Macarty
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Fifth District Court of New Orleans, Buchanan, J. cited Dorsey v. Creditors, 5 Mart. N. S. 401. 5 Mart. 416. 6 lb. 416. 9 lb. 365. 9 La. 284. .5 La. 46. Denis, Grailhe, and Soulé, contra.
1Opinion of the Court
The judgment of the court was, pronounced by
Eustis, C. J.
This is an appeal taken by the residuary legatee of the late L. B. Macarty from a judgmentof the Fifth District Cuurt of New Orleans, by which a charge of $3,000 to each of two attorneys employed by the testamentary executors,- was allowed in .the latters’ account. There were two executors, and each employed his attorney. The appellant objects to the amount charged as unreasonable, and one which the succession is not bound in law to pay, and insists on its being reduced for each attorney to the sum of $1,000, which the executors have…
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