Case Name: Succession of E. C. Hart.-Opposition to Account
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1873-07
Citations: 25 La. Ann. 583
Docket Number: No. 375
Parties: Succession of E. C. Hart.—Opposition to Account.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 25
Pages: 583–585

Head Matter:
No. 375.
Succession of E. C. Hart.—Opposition to Account.
' The grounds for opposing the judgment plaoed on the tableau, are such as should have been presonfced before its rendition, and cannot be urged in this proceeding. If the heirs are injured by the failure of the administrators to set up those grounds, there is a remedy at the proper time and before the proper tribunal. Their prayer to amend the judgment can not be heard, because they are appellees.
The order to the administrators to pay the said judgment out of the first funds, may not be strictly regular, but it is of little importance in this instance, as the question of privilege can not arise, and no other creditor seems to be contesting.
APPEAL from the Parish Court, parish of Caddo. Smith, J.
Nutt & Leonard, for opponeut and appellee. Egan é Wise, for admin.istrators and appellants.

Opinion:
.Howell, J.
A motion is made to dismiss this appeal on the grounds:
First — Because all parties interested in maintaining the judgment appealed from have neither been made parties to the appeal nor cited to answer. It is urged that appellants caused a curator ad hoc to be appointed and cited to represent several absentees, who are interested to maintain the judgment. As the succession is admitted to be entirely solvent, those parties can not be affected by any change in the judgment appealed from, and hence they are not necessary parties. There is no distribution of funds made in these proceedings.
Second — Because the record was not filed in this court within the legal delay.
It is within the recollection of the Court that an order was granted extending the time to bring up the appeal, and we cannot make the appellants suffer for the omission of the clerk of this Court to do his-duty and make an entry of the order. The authority cited does not apply.
Third — Because the judgment in case of Spyker v. Hart was rendered contradictorily with the administrators and appellants, has the effect of res judieata, and has been acquiesced in by them, placed on the tableau and partly paid.
The alleged payments were made prior to the appeal herein, and do not debar appellants from complaining of the terms of the judgment on the oppositions. They do not deny the verity of the judgment, but complain that they have been ordered to pay it in an illegal manner. They have not acquiesced in or partially paid the judgment from which they have appealed.
Fourth — Because neither in the court a qua nor in this Court is said judgment in favor of Spyker, so allowed, opposed by any person or persons, who have proved themselves to be either heirs or creditors of E. C. Hart, deceased; and because no parties but the administrators have appealed.
This refers to Cornelia Hart, who opposed the said judgment, as-allowed on the account, as widow and tutrix. The objection might avail to dismiss her opposition, but not the appeal taken by the administrators.
The motion to dismiss is overruled.