Succession of Guillory

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Manning, C. J.

Jean Baptiste Guillory died in 1875. His administrator has filed an account and tableau of distribution, which is opposed by some of the heirs. - ■ '

In'1860 the decedent and his wife made a donation by notarial acts to six of their children — to each one a slave valued -at eighteen hundred •dollars and a small sum of money — and the donors declared that the gift *496is made as an advance upon their inheritance, á litre d’avancement d’hoirie, and imposes upon them the obligation of collating it. The donees accept without reserve. In some of…