Succession of Christophe v. Lotten

GULOTTA, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of a succession for unpaid rent on succession immovable property owed by a co-heir and her husband from a commercial business which operates from the succession property.1 We affirm.

BACKGROUND AND FACTS

In 1971, Norbert Frank Christophe and his wife Sadie Saizon Christophe donated by authentic act their business, C & C Cleaners, in equal shares to their five children. The donation did not include, how*531ever, immovable property occupied by the business, at 2225 Dryades Street in New Orleans.

Defendants, Shirley Christophe Lotten, one of the…