Mathews v. Mathews

| ,This action concerns a family dispute between two brothers over their mother’s tract of land. In 1996, the mother executed an act of sale to one son, now a defendant. The defendant admits that no price was paid for the property and no sale occurred, but he defends the action claiming that a disguised donation was intended by his mother. In 1999, the mother made a second transfer of the property to the other son, the plaintiff, which she executed in the form of a donation. The plaintiff now claims that the 1996 sale to his brother was an absolute nullity and that a subsequent donation of a…