Stoner v. National Metropolitan Bank of Washington

REEVES, District Judge.

This is an action by the residuary legatees of Christina Buchholz, deceased, to recover the sum of $119,000 for the estate of their decedent from the estate of Frederick W. Buchholz, deceased, and which sum it is averred properly belongs to the estate of Christina Buchholz and to them as residuary legatees. The executor under the last will of Christina Buchholz declined to join in the proceeding and was made a defendant by the plaintiffs. The suit is based upon the following facts:

On August IS, 1941 Christina Buchholz was the owner in fee simple of a parcel of land of…