Succession of Stille

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Nicholls, C. J.

The following statement of facts appears in the reasons assigned by the district judge for his judgment in the case:

“J. D. Stille died in the year 1893, and his son, J. D. Stille, was appointed administrator. He left a large amount of wild land, a stock of goods, and debts to the amount of about eleven thousand dollars, including his mercantile debts, clerk hire, due to his sons by a former marriage, and four thousand dollars due by the last community to the separate estate of the deceased.

On the 9th of April, 1893, the administrator…