Succession of Geer

CHASEZ, Judge.

Defendant in rule, the Whitney National Bank of New Orleans, has appealed from a judgment ordering it to release the contents of a bank box in its City Bank Branch to William J. Prutzman.

Prutzman’s wife died intestate, and in her succession proceeding, William J. Prutzman obtained a judgment of possession recognizing him as owner of an undivided one-half interest in the community property, and usufructuary of the decedent’s community interest. The minor children, Timothy Dale Prutzman and Laura Ann Prutzman, issue of the marriage of William J. Prutz-man, were sent into…