Case Name: Succession of Susan A. Scott.- Opposition to Final Account
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1889-06
Citations: 41 La. Ann. 668
Docket Number: No. 1,219
Parties: Succession of Susan A. Scott.— Opposition to Final Account.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 41
Pages: 668–670

Head Matter:
No. 1,219.
Succession of Susan A. Scott.— Opposition to Final Account.
Its is not too late to file an opposition to a final account when the accountant has introduced liis evidence and closed it, and the minutos show “that the ease was taken up for trial, evidence introduced and case laid over until to-morrow morning,” and continues on the docket in this shape until the opposition is filed. .
Wlien an administrator’s account shows an amount for distribution less than tlio lower limit of the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, and tlio opposition, if sustained, would increase the amount so as to give the Supreme Court jurisdiction, the administrator would have the right to appeal; consequently the opponent has the same right to appeal.
An action of nullity for the sale of succession property can not ho grafted on to an opposition to a final account. The opponents have tlioir remedy by separate action.
APPEAL from the Twenty-Seventh District Court, Parish of Richland. Williams, J.
Thos. O. Benton and J. W. Willis for Opponents and Appellants.
Wells d; Rhymes for the Administrator, Appellee.

Opinion:
Motion to Dismiss.
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
McEnery, J.
The administrator has filed a motion to dismiss this appeal" on the ground that this court is without jurisdiction ratione mater ice.
The reason alleged is that the " Turkey Creek place " was erroneously inventoried, which fact is admitted in the record. It was sold under judicial process before the death of Mrs. Susan A. Scott, and deducting its value from the inventory, there remains the sum of $1507 50, an amount less than the lower limits of the jurisdiction of the Appellate Court.
In the opposition property, rents and revenues are claimed as assets of the succession, and if there had'been judgment for the opponents, the amount to be distributed would have exceeded the sum of $2000.
Therefore if the administrator had been cast in the suit, he would have had the undoubted right to appeal. The opponents can exercise the same right. The motion to dismiss is overruled.