WWLTV.com A sheriff’s auction Thursday afternoon brought a new twist in the complicated family fight over the future of Brennan's Restaurant in the French Quarter.  The restaurant's familiar pink building at 417 Royal Street was sold at a sheriff's auction at Civil District Court for $6.85 million.

Brennan's Restaurant, which is heavily in debt, is caught up in a legal squabble between family members fighting over control of the building first opened by Owen Brennan in 1954.

A court spokesman confirmed the sale, which would have been stopped had family member Owen "Pip" Brennan posted a $150,000 bond.  The bond was a condition of the injunction ordered Wednesday by Civil Court Judge Piper Griffin, which would have halted the sale and foreclosure.  The bond posting did not happen and the building was sold.Continue