Baker v. Baker

GREMILLION, Judge.

|]The defendants, John Burr Baker, Jr. (Johnny) and Alta Baker, appeal the judgment of the trial court in favor of the plaintiffs, Wilma Young Baker and the Succession of John Burr Baker, Sr.1 For the following reasons, we affirm.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

In August 2006, Wilma, the mother of Johnny, and the Succession of John, Sr. filed a petition for the return of $1,592,500 in loans made to her son and his wife, Alta, *961prior to her husband’s death in May 2003.2 Johnny and Alta vehemently deny that the monies were loans and instead claim that they were donations.…