Succession of Brierre

Theodore F. Brierre died intestate, leaving a widow and one minor child, and an estate consisting solely of decedent’s one-half interest in the community of acquSts and gains.

Among the assets of the community was a balance of deposit account in the sum of $262.26 in the Whitney Central Trust & Savings Bank of the city of New Orleans.

The surviving widow qualified as natural tutrix, and, while administering as such the estate to which the minor was entitled, made a demand upon the bank for this deposit, upon presentation only of her letters of tutorship.

This demand having been refused, the…