Select Query - Upto Previous Date Records is Not Working in Laravel

Following Laravel Query I Write for to get Upto Previous Date Records. thats Not Get any Records. If i Remove Date query its get Many Records. my $data['frmdate_submit'] format is 2017-05-24. How to Fix this Problem

$getpreviousbalance=Companyledger::where('transaction_date','>',$data['frmdate_submit'])->WhereIn('frm_ledger',$ledgerlist)->where('company_id',$companyids)->get();    

via Chebli Mohamed