Mangan v. Howard
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on July 14, 1919, seeking to establish title in the plaintiff to two $20,000 registered bonds of the city of Boston, alleged to have been delivered to the plaintiff as a gift inter vivas by Martha J. Brett, the defendants’ testatrix, three years and ten months before her death.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on July 14, 1919, seeking to establish title in the plaintiff to two $20,000 registered bonds of the city of Boston, alleged to have been delivered to the plaintiff as a gift inter vivas by Martha J. Brett, the defendants’ testatrix, three years and ten months before her death. The parties agreed to a stipulation in substance that the bonds which were the subject of the suit should remain in the custody of the defendants at the Home National Bank in Brockton, unassigned and unincumbered as to principal and interest, except that the proceeds of…
1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.
This is an appeal from a decree confirming the master’s report and the final decree, whereby the claim of the plaintiff to the absolute ownership by gift inter vivof of two registered bonds was established, and- an order made that the defendants deliver the bonds or the avails thereof to the plaintiff, in performance of their stipulation filed in court in this case.
It is settled in this Commonwealth that an unregistered bond, a bill of exchange, a promissory note, a policy of life insurance or a savings bank book, without an assignment, like a chattel may be the subject of a legal gift inter…
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