A New Orleans judge ruled Thursday that 87-year-old New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson is mentally competent to run the team.
The ruling came down after an eight-day trial in which Benson’s daughter and two grandchildren asked to rule Benson, who also owns the NBA’s New Orleans Pelicans, mentally incompetent to run his businesses. Benson had previously announced in January that he planned to remove the three as successors of his estimated $1.7 billion fortune.
Though Benson did not testify in the trial, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Civil District Judge Kern Reese ruled that Benson is “is able to make reasoned decisions as to his person and his property and therefore this court will not order an interdiction of any kind in these proceedings.