BARBOUR v. BARBOUR

No. 42128.

84 So.2d 205 (1955)

228 La. 823

Mrs. Jennie Hobbs BARBOUR v. Clyde A. BARBOUR, III.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

December 12, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Reed, Reed & Reed, New Orleans (Floyd J. Reed, New Orleans, of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Helm, Simon & Gordy, New Iberia, for plaintiff-appellee.


McCALEB, Justice.

Mrs. Jennie Hobbs Barbour brought this suit to dissolve, for failure of consideration, the transfer of 249 shares of the corporate stock of Oaklawn Manor to her grandson, Clyde A. Barbour III, an emancipated minor. The facts and circumstances which give rise to the controversy are not seriously disputed and we find them to be as follows:

Plaintiff, a widow 76 years of age, has made her home on the antebellum estate in St. Mary Parish, known...

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