Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-03-13 22:04:52.247999+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:16:22.420126
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STATE OF LOUISl~NA

              COURT OF APPEAL, FIRST CIRCUIT

ENAAS    NIKROO MORRISON,                                                                     NO.     2023 CW           0066
INDIVIDUALLY AND               IN HER
CAPACITY AS         PROVISIONAL
ADMINISTRATRIX OF THE
SUCCESSION         OF    DORIAN MAXWELL
MORRISON

VERSUS

BRITTANY VARNADO ADAMS,
TRUSTEE OF THE            C& C MORRISON
TRUST A FOR THE               BENEFIT OF
DORIAN M.       MORRISON AND AS
TRUSTEE       OF TRUST         B FOR THE                                                      MARCH        13,          2023
BENEFIT OF         JOSEPHINE
RHIANNON MORRISON

In Re:          Brittany Varnado                       Adams,          Truste~          of    the    C&        C Morrison
                Trust         A    for       the       benefit          of    Dorian          M.    Morrison            and    as
                Trustee            of        Trust           B        for    the        Benefit           of       Josephine
                Rhiannon             Morrison,                   applying           for       supervisory               writs,
                19th          Judicial           District               Court,          Parish       of        East       Baton
                Rouge,         No.      723945.

BEFORE:         THERIOT,           CHUTZ, AND                HESTER,         JJ.
                                                                                    I

         WRIT       GRANTED.             The       portion             of     the       trial       court's         December
6,    2022    judgment         denying the                  peremptory Jxception                      of no         cause      of
action        filed       by       the        defendant,                    Brittfny          Varnado          Adams,          as
Trustee       of    the    C&        C Morrison                  Trust A for             the    benefit            of    Dorian
M.    Morrison          and    Trust         B     for       the       benefit;:        of     Josephine            Rhiannon
Morrison,          is     reversed.                    We    find           the    plaintiff,             Enaas         Nikroo
Morrison,          fails      to     state         a    cause          of    actiion      for       reimbursement              of
money    taken       from         the    proceeds                of    the    sale       of    immovable            property
to    satisfy a          mortgage        securing payment                         o~ a       promissory note that
was     executed         prior          to    the           plaintiff             acEepting          an    inter          vivos
donation       of       the    subject           immovable              property.              See    La.          Civ.    Code
art.    1549.        Accordingly,                the         exception            of     no    cause      of       action      is
granted,           and     the         claims               of    Enaas           Nik.roo          Morrison             against
Brittany Varnado Adams,                       as       Trustee          of the, C &            C Morrison Trust A
for     the    benefit            of     Dorian              M.       Morrison          and        Trust       B    for       the
benefit        of       Josephine             Rhiannon                Morrison,              are     dismissed             with
prejudice.

                                                                      MRT
                                                                      WRC
                                                                      CHH

COURT    OF APPEAL,            FIRST CIRCUIT

       DEPUTY CLERK OF COURT
              FOR THE         COURT