White v. Succession of Candebat

The National Bank of Commerce of New Orleans as the executor of the Succession of Mrs. Josephine Arias Candebat is appealing from the judgment of the lower court ordering that the claim of John H. White in the amount of $1,250 be placed on the account filed by it in the succession proceedings as compensation in quantum meruit for services rendered by the claimant over a period of 286 weeks prior to the decedent's death, she having failed to carry out her promise to compensate him in her will. Answering the appeal in this court the appellee seeks to have the judgment of the lower court…