Court Opinion

ID: 6663522
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-20 21:04:23.231827+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:00:15.748257
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DUFO-UR, J.
The appellant here and opponent below, holder of a note purporting to be secured by vendor’s privilege, opposed *212all the items of the accóuíit herein, and complains particularly that her claim was subordinated to the funeral expenses.
April 3rd, 1905.
If her note is secured by mere mortgage the ruling is correct; if by vendor’s privilege, it is otherwise.
Succession of Negueloud, 52 An. 1495, does not go beyond holding that the fees of the administrator’s attorney will prime the vendor’s privilege in case the creditors allow the succession to be opened without taking out executory proceedings. Under Act. 3284, R. C. C., the rights of creditors having a privilege upon both movables and immovables are subjected to the prior claim of the vendor, the only exception being the expenses incurred in Selling the property.
The administrator tendered testimony to show that the alleged vendor’s privilege was in reality a mortgage; the testimony was excluded.
While it is true that authentic acts cannot be varied between the parties except by a counter letter or by interrogatories ort facts and articles, it is equally true that the rule of inadmissibility of parol evidence against of beyond the contents of an- act Only extends to the parties thereto.
The creditors of the succession are'third parties, but the objection to their claim is that the opponent is also a third party, who, so far as the record shows, acquired the note before maturity and for value,
The objection is not sound; though the note be negotiable, the mortgage or vendor’s privilege is not, and it is competent for a third person in interest to attack the transaction and to shovv that the real nature of the contract is a mortgage in the form of a Sale.
The proof tendered should have been received.
Judgment reversed, and cause remanded to be tried according' to the views herein expressed, appellee to pay costs of appeal and costs of lower court to await final determination of the cause,