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SUCCESSION OF FISHER

No. 43442.

103 So.2d 276 (1958)

235 La. 263

Succession of Mrs. Julia Hochfelder FISHER.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

May 26, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dreyfous & Kalinski, George A. Dreyfous, Edward A. Kalinski, New Orleans, for appellant.

Clay, Coleman, Dutrey & Thomson, Jacob J. Meyer, by James Julien Coleman, Felix O. Rousset, New Orleans, for appellees.

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

This suit was brought by the two surviving brothers of Mrs. Julia Hochfelder Fisher to have the residuary legacy in her will declared invalid on the ground that the residuary legatee, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, is an unincorporated association and hence incapable of receiving a donation mortis causa under Louisiana law, and also because the legacy is prohibited by Article 1489 of our Civil Code. The legacy...

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