Williams v. Western Star Lodge No. 24

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

Tlie plaintiffs, alleging themselves to be universal legatees under the last will of Louisa L. McGuire, deceased, seek to have item third of said testament declared null and of no effect, on the following grounds, viz:

1st. Because the testatrix gave and bequeathed to the Western Star Lodge No. 24 of Free and Accepted Masons, of Monroe, La., her plantation on Bayou de Suard, requesting among other things, “that the net revenues of said property be used by said lodge for the support and education of the necessitous widows and orphans of…