Succession of Howell

OVERTON, Justice.

Henry Howell died on February 11, 1930, testate. A final account was filed in his succession in July of the same year. Mrs. Julia T. Charlton, who claimed to be a creditor of the succession in the sum of $10,000, was not carried by the executors on the account. Mrs. Charlton therefore filed an opposition to the account. The opposition was dismissed on an exception of no cause or right of action.

According to the allegations of Mrs. Charlton’s opposition, the deceased was engaged almost entirely in the lending of money, and carried from three to five hundred accounts on his…