Case Name: Succession of E. Cordeviolle
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1871-03
Citations: 23 La. Ann. 297
Docket Number: No. 2896
Parties: Succession of E. Cordeviolle.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 23
Pages: 297–299

Head Matter:
No. 2896.
Succession of E. Cordeviolle.
Several appeals from different judgments, rendered in tlie settlement of a succession, may be cumulated in one record, if all the parties interested enter into an agreement to that effect. In such a case, if the bonds given in such case are sufficiently identified with the judgments from which appeals have been granted, and the respective amounts correspond with the amounts fixed hy the order of the court in each case, and be signed by the proper parties, the appeals will not he dismissed for irregularity.
A judgment homologating an administrator’s account and tableaux, before the lapse of ten days alter citation, is a nullity.
By a sale of succession property, mortgages existing thereon become transferred to the proceeds of the sale, and the purchaser of the property may have the mortgages erased from the records of the mortgage office hy rule to that effect on the recorder of mortgages.
A judgment recognizing the widow as legatee under the will, must conform to those provisions in the will which award the legacy.
APPEAL from the Second District Court, parish of Orleans.
Duvigneaud, J. L. Castenau and Carleton Hunt and M. A. Dooley, for appellants.
A. D. Tissot and Charles Louque, for appellees.

Opinion:
Howell, J.
Two appellants are before us with appeals taken by them respectively from several judgments rendered in the progress of the mortuary proceedings herein, and made returnable on the same day, third Monday of May, 1870.
John Dawson, who was superseded in his office by the appointment of Mrs. Commagere, the sister of the deceased, as dative testamentary executrix, and Mrs. Cordeviolle, widow of the deceased, appealed from. a judgment amending and homologating the account rendered by Dawson to his successor. The widow also appealed from a judgment ordering the erasure of the mortgage appearing on the records by the recording of her marriage contract; one amending and homologating | an account filed by the dative executrix, and one recognizing her as legatee for an annuity under the will, but refusing to recognize a mortgage resulting from the said marriage contract.
A motion is made to dismiss those appeals on grounds not well taken. That in regard to the appeals being in one transcript is cured by agreement. The bonds are for the amounts fixed by the judge, and, taken with the petitions for appeals, sufficiently identify and describe the judgments appealed from, and the one signed by the widow maintains the appeals in her individual capacity. Her interest as legatee is sufficient to authorize an appeal.