Stewart v. Devall

FRUGÉ, Judge ad hoc.

This is an action instituted by plaintiff, Mary P. Stewart, to set aside a certain “cash sale” by the plaintiff to Bertheila B. Devall and William S. Devall, defendants-appellants, of a certain parcel of property situated in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana.

Plaintiff alleges in her petition that she did not receive the $1;000 recited consideration in the act of sale, and that the act of sale was a simulation and a fraud and that at the time of the execution thereof, she believed it to be a will. The defendants answered by way of a general denial. However,…