Case ID: mart-os_2/html/0242-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

ELLERY vs. AMELUNG's SYNDICS.
    Attorney's bill not privi-ledged.
    Suit for services as an attorney and counsellor at law. The plaintiff was on the insolvent's bilan, as a creditor of five hundred dollars for professional services. The jury allowed him that sum, and he claimed to receive it as a priviledged debt. Civil Code, 468, art. 72, s. 2.
   By the Court.

Heis only to be collocated on the tableau for that sum. The code allows a pri- viledge in favour of law charges, frais de justice. The English expression. is rather vague-the French one is only, costs of court : taxed costs.

Mazureau, for the plaintiff.

Moreau, for the defendants.

A creditor who claims to be paid, in exclusion of the others, must make out his right strictly. Priviledges are odious and should be restrained.

Priviledge denied.