Blodgett v. Union & New Haven Trust Co.

I answer the question reserved for our advice as the majority do, but differ with the grounds and reasoning of the opinion. From their purchase in July, 1919, until July, 1924, Brown, Shipley and Company of London, England, held certain bearer bonds for Mrs. Trowbridge; at this date she wrote them a letter as follows: “I wish the £30,500 Funding Loan that you hold for me to stand in my husband’s name as well as in my own, so that, in the event of my dying suddenly, it may pass to him immediately without any legal formalities. My mother had the Hongkong & Shanghai shares (that you kept for…