In Re Webster's Tutorship

FOURNET, Justice.

Relator, Ernest Webster, alleging that he had been duly emancipated by judgment of the civil district court for the parish of Orleans, ruled his “former co-tutor, the Bourg State Bank and Trust Company (now Citizens Bank and Trust Company),” into court to show cause why his entire estate, consisting of federal and state bonds and cash, amounting in excess of $11,000, should not be turned over to him.

The Citizens Bank & Trust Company resisted the rule on the ground that the alleged judgment of emancipation is an abso lute nullity because (1) relator’s tutor, the Bank, was not…