Bellis v. Lyons

The defendant was the special administrator of one Thomas Morgan, deceased. As such he took possession of 22 promissory notes given to said Morgan in his life-time. Some of the notes were secured by chattel and real-estate mortgages. Plaintiff, claiming title to said notes by gift and delivery by Morgan, after demand and refusal on the part of defendant to surrender them, brought this action of. trover to recover their value. The court directed a verdict for defendant, on the ground that plaintiff had failed to establish her ownership of the notes.

The estate inventoried $8,117, of .which the…