Succession of Meyer

[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] A testamentary executor, who is also one of the forced heirs, instituted this action against one of his coheirs to reduce an allegedly excessive donation made by their mother in her will. From a judgment maintaining the exceptions of no cause and no right of action filed by the coheir, the plaintiff has appealed.

Mrs. Anna Ottman Meyer died on August 25, 1938, leaving a nuncupative will by private act dated July 11, 1936, in which she disposed of her estate by…