Succession of Sterkx v. Sterkx

HIGGINS, Justice.

Mrs. Ruby White Sterkx, widow of Joseph Sterkx, Jr., appealed from the judgment of the district court approving, as amended, the second provisional account of I. J. DeLatin, executor. The appeal was expressly limited to that portion of the judgment, which orders the payment of the claims of twenty-six ordinary creditors. x

The record shows that the deceased was engaged in business at Alexandria, Louisiana, as a local Jax beer agent for the Jackson Brewing Company of New Orleans, Louisiana. He died on July 7, 1938, leaving a last will and testament in which he appointed Isidore…