23 La. Ann. 105 | La. | 1871
This controversy has grown out of the administration of the successions of Henry Gross and wife and the tutorship of their minor children. Gross died in July, 1860 j his wife some years previous. John Ulmer was hoth administrator and tutor. Ho filed his-accounts of administration on the sixth of June, 1866, which seems to have been duly advertised and regularly homologated, no opposition having been made. By this account, it appears the administrator had in hand as assets of the estate $4788 25, out of which lie paid the debts, amounting to $1618 14, leaving a net balance of $3170 11. fiTm-e were three minors, two girls and a boy. The property consisted of a house and lot of ground in the parish of Jefferson, a house and lot of ground in the upper part of the city of New Orleans, and $3170 11 in the hands of the tutor. In January, 1870, the youngest of these wards, Henry, having attained the ago of eighteen years, was emancipated. Tiie administrator and tutor was required to make final settlements and put the heirs in possession oV their property. His account was filed in May following. By this account it appeared that the total amount collected and received by the administrator and tutor was-$6234 29, and the total sum paid out $9707 75, showing an excess of $3473 46 over the assets. This account was opposed by the heirs, and a protracted litigation ensued. The judge a quo sustained to a great extent the opposition to the account, and rendered a judgment greatly reducing the charges of the tutor and establishing a balance against him. From the judgment thus rendered the tutor has-appealed.
The real estate, it is shown, has- yielded a revenue since the death of the minors’ parents, which the district judge found, from the voluminous evidence introduced, to amount on an average to $450 per annum, and that the sum of $1436 36 cash in hands of the tutor might.
The judgment's erroneous as to tho rate of interest the tutor should be required to pay. Five per cent, by the present law is fixed as the rate of interest tutors are bound to pay on money of their wards not invested by tutors, as required by law. C. C. 347 [341]. Revised Statutes, page 744, Sec. 3826.
There is an omission by the judge a quo in not awarding the tutor his commissions. In respect to the rate of interest prescribed by law to be paid by tutors where they fail to invest the money funds, and in regard to the commissions of the tutor in this case the judgment should be amended.
Rehearing refused.