Case Name: ELLERY vs. AMELUNG's SYNDICS
Court: Superior Court of Louisiana
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1812
Citations: 2 Mart. (o.s.) 242
Docket Number: 
Parties: ELLERY vs. AMELUNG's SYNDICS.
Judges: 
Reporter: Martin (Louisiana Term Reports)
Volume: 2
Pages: 242–243

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.