Martin v. Martin

The late Valery Martin, deceased in 1858, and his surviving wife, Célestine Huval, had issue of their marriage four children, namely, 1st, Placide Martin, deceased in 1846 ; 2d, Balthazar Martin; 3d, André Valsin Martin; 4th, VaUrien Martin.

In the year 1841, January 5th, by act before Bryant, Notary Public in the parish of St. Martin, Valery Martin and his wife, Célestine Huval, declared that they had made to their son Placide, in his lifetime, a verbal donation of certain enumerated immovable property and slaves, which, with their consent, had been inventoried among the effects of the…