Succession of Meyer

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Nicholls, C. J.

On the 11th of April, 1852, Francois Mestayer and his wife, Ida Mestayer, by public act before Alcibiad6 DeBlanc, notary public, made donations to several of their children, then of age. Among those donations was one to their son, Frederic Mestayer, of two slaves, each valued in the act at the sum of $750. The act declares that the donee shall not be held to collate in kind the said slaves in the successions of his father- and mother, they expressly dispensing him from so doing, but that he shall collate the value of the same by taking…