Succession of Vance

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Manning, J.

Eliza Yance made her will in June 1879 giving three hundred dollars to each of four “ charitable institutions, all of the city of New Orleans, viz the little Sisters of the poor; the Home of the aged and infirm; the Louisiana Retreat; the Insane Asylum,” and directed the residue of her estate (after numerous legacies) to he equally divided between five of her grandchildren and these four institutions. She died in July 1882.

When her will was made and at the time of her death there was an institution at New Orleans, called the Insane Asylum,…