Succession of Nock

SIMON, Justice.

William Nock died intestate on January 15, 1958, in a Veterans Administration hospital in North Carolina. On November 3, 1958, the First National Bank and Trust Company of Asheville, North Carolina, addressed a letter to one of the Civil District Court Judges for the Parish of Orleans stating that it held in the name of William Nock a savings account with a present balance of $646.51; that Nock was apparently a resident of Louisiana, leaving a brother living in New Orleans, another brother in Kentucky and a sister living in Ohio; that apparently the said savings account was the…