In re Cattanach

In a discovery proceeding by the executor to recover certain bonds or their proceeds from decedent’s second wife (the respondent Lillian Cattanach), who claimed that the bonds were given to her by decedent as an inter vivos gift, decedent’s first wife and their daughter appeal from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court, Nassau County, entered January 22, 1964 after a nonjury trial upon the court’s decision and opinion, which adjudged that the said respondent Lillian Cattanach is the owner and entitled to the possession of the bonds, and which dismissed the petition. Decree affirmed, with costs to…