Moore v. Wartelle

Th.e opinion of the Court was delivered by

Bermudez, C. J.

This suit has a double object: First, to annul a transfer of real estate made by plaintiffs’ grandmother to the defendants, their uncles, on the ground of defect of form, of simulation or fraud ■, and second, to compel the latter to account for certain movable property of the deceased, which they unlawfully retain in their possession.

The nullity of the transfer is sought, because the transfer, in the form of a sale, was intended as a disguised donation, and was made under private signature; because the conveyance was made without any…