Basore v. Metropolitan Trust Co.

Plaintiff has appealed from a judgment for defendant after trial before the court, sitting without a jury. The action was originally commenced by Howard E. Basore and Helen Basore individually, as the children and sole beneficiaries of Lucy M. Basore, deceased, but by appropriate order, Helen L. Basore, as the administratrix of the estate of said deceased, was substituted as plaintiff.

The action was brought to recover the sum of $2,886.18, representing the balance in the possession of defendant as successor trustee of the undistributed assets of Columbia Oil Producing Company, a corporation…