Hatfield v. Buck

Plaintiff moves herein for summary judgment pursuant to rule 113 of the Rules of Civil Practice.

The action is brought to secure a judgment declaring plaintiff the owner and entitled to the immediate possession of certain United States savings bonds of total face value of $3,650. The complaint alleges further that the bonds are registered in plaintiff’s name as sole owner, that they were delivered for safekeeping to plaintiff’s son, Charles H. Hatfield, and that defendant is in possession of the bonds and wrongfully refuses to give them up.

The answers admits defendant’s possession, but denies…