Succession of Blanco

The question involved in this cause is whether the vendor’s lien is not subordinated to the costs of administering, including the attorney’s fees, the succession in which the property is sold, when the sole effects of the succession consist of a single piece of real estate, and there was no objection urged to the probate sale on the part of the creditor hloding a special mortgage and vendor’s lien on the. property.

The fact's are that Mrs. Atilano Blanco died, intestate, on the 18th August, 1903, and her succession was thereafter duly opened, her surviving husband having been duly appointed…