Besson v. Stevens

The bills were filed to obtain an adjudication of the ownership of, and title to, certain shares of corporate stock owned by Richard Stevens, deceased, in his lifetime, and claimed by the executors of his will, but which were also claimed, partly by his daughter Elizabeth C. Stevens, Jr., who died pending the litigation, and partly by his daughter Dorothy P. Stevens. Each daughter claimed by virtue of an alleged gift inter vivos from her father, and the fundamental question argued before the vice-chancellor was whether there had been in fact and law such a gift. He held to the contrary in a…