Case ID: la_10/html/0170-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Martin, J.,\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SIMPSON vs. HIS CREDITORS.
    Eastern Dist.
    
      June, 1836.
    APPEAL PROM THE COURT OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE THEREOF PRESIDING.
    Minors cannot claim a privilege on the property of their tutors, on account of the tutorship, which affects personal as well as real property. They have only a legal mortgage, to take effect from the date of the tutorship.
    This appeal was taken by the syndic of the plaintiff’s creditors, and as a creditor himself, and by another creditor, from a judgment sustaining an opposition, in which the opponents were allowed a privilege and mortgage of the highest order, after the law and other privileged charges, on all the property of the . insolvent, on account of his tutorship.
    
      Minors can_ «otclaim a PH-«feí-eonthepro-perty of their count’of°the tu-as well as real KToniy Pie- {>*? t0 the date of the tutolslnp-
    
      Jl. N. Ogden, for the appellants.
    tMorgan? contra.
   Martin, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

Beaumgard, the syndic, and Bartel, a creditor, are appellants from a judgment sustaining the opposition to the tableau of distribution, (presented by the syndic) of Catherine Roddy and others, and ordering them to be placed on said tableau collectively, for the sum of three thousand and eleven dollars and sixty-six and one-fourth cents, with a privilege of the highest order, after the law-charges and the vendor’s privilege : Beaumgard being a creditor, with a legal mortgage, and Bartel, a creditor with a special mortgage, and placed on the tableau as such, by preference to the opposing creditors.

The mortgage of the appellees result from the tutorship of the insolvent; that of Beaumgard from a legal mortgage, and that of Bartel, from a special one ; both of a much later date than that of the appellees, which had its effect from the marriage of the insolvent with the mother and tutrix. Louisiana Code, article 354. Neither of the appellants has . ,. any right to complain.of the judgment on his own account; but the syndic, in right of the mass of the creditors, justly complains that a privilege was granted; minors being only entitled to a mortgage on the property of their tutors, which affects real estate only, while the privilege affects the personal also. Louisiana Code, article 354.

It is, therefore, ordered, adjudged, and decreed, that the judgment of the District Court be annulled, avoided and reversed, and this court proceeding to give such judgment as the court below ought, in their opinion, to have rendered, it is ordered, that the appellees be placed on the tableau of distribution, as mortgage creditors, from the date of the marriage of the insolvent, the appellees paying the costs of the appeal.