Dixon v. Commercial National Bank

Plaintiffs are the sole heirs of Henry Dixon, deceased, and prosecute the present suit against the Commercial National Bank of Shreveport to recover the sum of $1,876.16, which the said Henry Dixon had on deposit to his credit in the bank when he died in December, 1917. Their demands were rejected by the district court, and they appealed.

When Henry Dixon died in December, 1917, he had on deposit to his credit in the defendant bank the above-stated sum. In the early part of 1918, one Maria Dixon Mayfield made application to the district court of Bossier parish, asking that she be recognized as…