Succession of Falconer

A tableau of distribution having been filed by the administratrix of the estate of the late William R. Falconer, various oppositions were made to it. Among them was one, filed by several of the ordinary creditors of the deceased, to the claim of Charles Morgan, who was therein set down as a mortgage creditor for $> 14,715. This opposition having been sustained by the court below, Charles Morgan has appealed.

The record shows that, on the 25th of April, 1838, the deceased executed to the appellant, before the'Parish Judge of Pointe Coupée, a mortgage on a tract of land and a number of slaves,…