Legal Opinion
Braquet v. Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided July 30, 1982No. 13051PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CIACCIO, Judge.
Plaintiffs, the collateral relatives and presumptive intestate heirs of James Mitchell Rogers, have brought this action seeking revocation of the donation mortis causa by James M. Rogers to defendant, The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund (Tulane). Plaintiffs allege that Tulane failed to fulfill the condition imposed upon the legacy by the testator, i.e., the construction of a non-sectarian chapel on the campus of Newcomb College of Tulane University, memorializing decedent’s late sister, Myra Clare Rogers. Following a trial on the merits, the trial court dismissed…
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