Wakefield v. Wakefield

This is an appeal from a judgment quieting plaintiff’s title to fourteen shares of the capital stock of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

Daisy Bernhauer and Velma Stacey were mother and daughter. Daisy died on December 5, 1935, and Velma in February, 1936. C. K. Wakefield was appointed administrator of both estates. Counsel have expressly waived the question of the propriety of C. K. Wakefield as administrator of the estate of Velma Stacey, deceased, suing himself as the administrator of the estate of Daisy Bernhauer, deceased. We express no opinion on that question but merely…