Case Name: Succession of J. A. Dichary. Opposition to Final Ac. of Adm.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1880
Citations: 1 Mann. Unrep. Cas. 109
Docket Number: No. 6158
Parties: Succession of J. A. Dichary. Opposition to Final Ac. of Adm.
Judges: 
Reporter: Unreported cases heard and determined by the Supreme Court of Louisiana, from January 8, 1877, to April, 1880
Volume: 1
Pages: 109–110

Head Matter:
No. 6158.
Succession of J. A. Dichary. Opposition to Final Ac. of Adm.
A planting partnership having been dissolved by the death of one of the partners in mid-year, the administrator of the deceased was charged with the inventoried value of the growing crops, and was prevented from showing the expenses of cultivation after the decease of his intestate, and the privileged charges; held, this was error. The administrator was not concluded by the inventory. ¿Ton constat there were any net profits.
Appeal from the Parish Court of Ascension. Maher, J.
Sims for Administrator Appellant. Duffel & Landry for Opponent Appellee.
The case being stated: —

Opinion:
Egan, J.
We are compelled to set aside so much of the judgment of the court below as charges the administrator appellant, personally and otherwise, with the value of the sugar and molasses inventoried. Whether the administrator is chargeable with the fruits of the planting partnership, and to what extent, depends upon the inquiry into which the court a qxta refused to go. This was error. The appellant should have been allowed to offer the evidence, to the rejection of which he took his several bills of exception, and which related to the expenses of the planting partnership and the advances and privileged charges, both against the partnership and the share of the deceased. The administrator was not concluded by the inventory, and should have been permitted to show that property in it never came into his possession. He is not shown to have been present when it was taken nor to have signed it. The judgment of the court is therefore avoided and reversed as it charges the administrator personally or otherwise with the value of the sugar and molasses inventoried, and the cause remanded for inquiry as to these and the planting partnership expenses in accordance with the principles, of this decree. In other respects the judgment is affirmed, opponent to pay costs of appeal.