Taylor v. Brown

McCALEB, Justice.

Esther Warren Taylor, one of the surviving daughters of Louis Warren, a colored man who died intestate on November 27, 1945, brought this suit to annul the sale by her father, on April 10, 1945, of a parcel of real estate situated in Square 101 of Suburb South Baton Rouge to .another daughter, Thelma Warren Brown, for a stated consideration of $915.69. The conveyance is assailed mainly on the ground that it was, in reality, a donation in disguise violative of Article 2444 of the LSA-Civil Code in that the price paid by Thelma Brown was less than one-fourth' of the value of…