Zink v. Stafford

In this chancery suit, we consider whether four promissory notes are estate assets or whether the notes passed to the decedent’s daughter, individually, by right of survivorship.

Thomas J. Stafford, a widower, died intestate in 1984, survived by his only children, a son, appellee Thomas L. Stafford, and a daughter, appellant June S. Zink. In 1985, the daughter qualified as administrator of the decedent’s estate.

In 1988, the son filed a bill of complaint, later amended, against the daughter individually and in her representative capacity, and Continental Insurance Company, surety on the…