Hughes v. Fitzhugh

HEARD, Judge.

This suit was instituted by the forced heirs, children and grand-children of Harry Frank Hughes, to declare a purported cash sale of real estate in Morehouse Parish to defendants Marvin Fitzhugh and Mrs. Beatrice Fitzhugh, son-in-law and daughter of Harry Frank Httghes, a nullity as a simulation or in the alternative a donation in disguise, and further in the alternative, if a donation, it was an absolute nullity under LSA-R.S.C.C. Art. 1497 in that it was a donation inter vivos which divested donor of all of his property. Defendants admitted the recited cash consideration had…