Burbank v. Payne & Harrison

The plaintiff in this case, acting as the curator of the vacant succession of Robert Woodsides, who died in the parish of Assumption, in this State, where his succession was duly opened, instituted suit in the Second District Court of Now Orleans against Payne & Harrison, claiming from them certain funds in their hands belonging to the succession of Woodsides.

The defendants, by their answer, admitted that they had in their hands, standing to the credit of the deceased Robert Woodsides, the sum of $521 17, and that they also hold a further sum of $5,000, which, they say, was deposited with…