Court Opinion

ID: 7190360
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 16:56:15.218588+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:16:10.289818
License: Public Domain

Morgan, J.
T. B. Lee died in this city on the first of January, 1875. He left a will which was duly probated and ordered to be executed by the Second District Court for the parish of Orleans. Under the will the executrix has administered upon the estate.
His succession was also opened by the public administrator for the *24parish of Plaquemines, but subsequent to its having been opened in New Orleans. Inventories were taken in the parish of Orleans, where he owned a considerable amount of real estate, as well as in the parish of Plaquemines, where he owned a plantation, under orders of the Judge of the Second District Court.
. One Perault, claiming to bo a creditor of the deceased, took a rule in the Second District Court of New Orleans upon the executrix to show cause why the mortuary proceedings and all subsequent proceedings in the succession should not be transferred to the Second Judicial District Court for the parish of Plaquemines, upon various grounds.
The executrix, in limine, excepted to the mode of proceeding, upon the ground that the object thereof is to annul Judgments already rendered.
The exception was well taken. The result of the plaintiff’s action would be to annul the Judgment of the court appointing her executrix, and would annul all the orders and doings had in the succession subsequent to her confirmation as executrix.
This can only be done by a direct action.
It-is therefore ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the Judgment of the District Court be avoided, annulled, and reversed, and that the rule herein taken be dismissed at plaintiff’s costs.
Rehearing- refused.