SUCCESSION OF HYAMS

No. 2547.

199 So.2d 29 (1967)

Succession of Chapman H. HYAMS, III.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 5, 1967.

Writ Refused June 30, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Kearney, Jr., New Orleans, for K. C. Barranger, Testamentary Executor, appellee.

J. Barnwell Phelps, Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, New Orleans, for Times-Picayune Pub. Company Profit-Sharing Retirement Trust, appellee.

Floyd F. Greene, Walter F. Marcus, Sr., New Orleans, for Inheritance Tax Collector, appellant.

Before McBRIDE, CHASEZ and BARNETTE, JJ.


CHASEZ, Judge.

Chapman H. Hyams, III died at his domicile in the City of New Orleans on the 12th day of September, 1964. He left a last will and testament, under the terms of which he made a bequest to the Times-Picayune Publishing Company Profit-Sharing Retirement Trust. This legacy constituted 5/24ths of his residuary estate.

The testamentary executor of this estate filed a rule against the Inheritance Tax Collector for the Parish of Orleans, directing him...

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