In re the Accounting of Currier

Griffiths, S.

The question presented for determination in this executor’s accounting proceeding is the validity of a claim of the respondent, Adelaide H. Baumer, as committee of the person and property of Frederick W. Baumer, her father, an incompetent.

The decedent was a sister of the incompetent, both of them residing in the city of New Rochelle. On February 17, 1944, the said Frederick W. Baumer purchased, in his own name, a United States Savings Bond, series “ G ” in the face amount of $5,000. Shortly thereafter he submitted said bond to a local bank with a request for its reissuance in the…