Relative of Donor Sues Brandeis U. After It Announces Plans to Destroy a Building

By Ian Wilhelm

A family member of a donor to Brandeis University is suing the institution to prevent it from tearing down a building, saying that would violate the terms of an estate gift made in the 1950s.

Sumner Kalman, a lawyer from Plaistow, N.H., wants a Massachusetts court to stop the university from demolishing a science facility named after his great uncle, Julius Kalman, a real-estate mogul who gave Brandeis $1.8-million in 1956 as part of his will.

According to the lawsuit, the will