Security-Mutual Bank & Trust Co. v. Buder

BARRETT, Commissioner.

Instead of immediately indicating how and why this case came to be in this court and before plainly stating the questions involved, it appears to be more appropriate to an understanding of the appeal to first briefly set forth the facts and circumstances in which the case and its issues arose. Incident to the Buder litigation and under an order of the probate court, the Security-Mutual Bank & Trust Company in July 1943 became the “custodian” or “depository” of the “assets” of the “Estate of *783Sophie Franz.” G. A. Buder, Sr., was then the executor of Sophie’s estate and the…