Succession of Mielke

Eustis, C.‘J.

The appellant, 3. £. W. Sill, was appointed by the Court of the First District of New Orleans, curator of the succession of Edward C. Miellce, deceased. A certain female slave named Sa/rah Saines, was inventoried as belonging to the succession, and appraised at the sum of five hundred dollars.

At the instance of the appellant a rule was taken on the slave, and on Ghwrles G. Hutchinson, as guardian of Constance Miellce, and in his own right, to show cause why the said slave should not be delivered up to him as the property of the succession.

In this way the appellant sought, it…