Tomkies v. Tomkies

Haden, Chief Justice:

This is an appeal by D. C. Tomkies from a final order of the Circuit Court of Summers County denying appellant’s claim, asserted as a beneficiary of the estate of Toney C. Tomkies, deceased, that 245 shares of capital stock in The National Bank of Summers, registered in the decedent’s name, was the property of the decedent at his death and an asset of his estate. The order appealed from held that the stock in question had been the subject of an inter vivos gift transferred by Toney Tom-kies to the appellees, Sarah Frances Blethen, Clara Elizabeth McKeever, Charles E.…