CALOGERO, Justice.
In this case we must determine whether a statute, La.C.C. art. 1486 (repealed in 1979), which limited the amount an illegitimate child could receive by donation from his natural father to one-fourth of his father's property if the father left legitimate ascendants or legitimate siblings, was constitutional.
Frank Ford Sims, the testator, was never married. He was survived by his four duly acknowledged illegitimate children, Leola Marie Cosey...
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