Bourgeat v. Dumoulin

This suit was brought by one of the collateral heirs of Onil Bourgeat, deceaseds to annul' an act of donation inter vivos, made by said Onil Bourgeat to the defendant, his sister-in-law, nearly a year before his death. The plaintiff has appealed from a judgment rendered upon the verdict of a jury in favor of the defendant.

The donation is formal upon its face, but the appellant maintains that it was absolutely null, because it was a donation omnium bonorum, prohibited by the Article 1484 of the Louisiana Code: “The donation inter vivos shall in no case divest the donor of all* his property…