Succession of Danneel

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

Mrs. Grace Zelie Darineel, widow of Dr. George W. Rembert, died on February 7, 1959, and the Whitney National Bank of New Orleans qualified as testamentary executor. On June 10, 1960, the executor in these succession proceedings filed a tableau of distribution, styled by it “first provisional account”, listing certain debts which it proposed to pay including a proposed payment to Dr. Robert Bernhard, Sr., of $5420.00 for professional services rendered to the decedent. Dr. Bernard filed opposition to this tableau, contending that he was a creditor of the decedent for…