Cohen v. Harris Trust & Savings Bank

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE DEMPSEY

delivered the opinion of the court.

Ida Cohen filed a petition in the Probate Court against Harris Trust and Savings Bank, executor of the estate of Lewis B. McVicker, to recover 100 shares of stock which she. claimed she had received from the decedent as a gift. The court ordered the respondent to deliver the stock to her. The respondent appeals from the order on the ground that the petitioner’s proof was insufficient to establish an inter vivos gift.

McVicker, a manufacturer’s representative, owned and operated his own business and for many years Miss Cohen was…