Succession of Thorame

Jean Pierre Thorcmie, by his will made in Paris, and duly admitted to probate and execution in New Orleans, devised and bequeathed one-third of the net total of his estate to the asylum for male orphans established in the Third District of the city of New Orleans.

There are two charitable corporations answering the description of this clause of the will of Thorame, both being located or established within the corporate limits of the Third District of New Orleans. Each of these institutions claims, to the exclusion of the other, to have the benefit of this legacy.

The corporate appellation of…