Succession of Bollinger

The opinion of the court was delivered by

DeBlanc, J.

Jean Christophe Bollinger died on the thirteenth of January 1876. He married twice: his first wife, Anne Marie Baudoin— died on the first of December 1851, leaving as her legal representatives two grandchildren — Jean Paul and Mathieu Ballatin. On the twenty-sixth of April 1855, four months and twenty-six days after the demise of his first wife, he married Christine Solomé Keiffer, from whom he had two children.

After that second marriage, three slaves belonging to the community which had existed between the said Bollinger and his first wife,…