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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Doughty grants a pre-trial request by the biological child of a Louisiana resident, finding the state’s “Dead Man Statute” bars her stepmother from introducing text messages and oral conversations with her father regarding a $315,000 Rolls Royce Phantom he allegedly gave to his wife one week before he died. The stepmother unsuccessfully argues that the statute’s hearsay prohibition does not apply to her suit against the stepdaughter for posthumous conversion of the luxury car to cash. The stepmother failed to comply with certain procedural requirements that would allow her to introduce the documents and a video as evidence of her ownership. Further, applying the Dead Man’s Statute to the conversion suit would encourage other Louisiana litigants to “forum shop.”