In Re Estate of Hackenbroch

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE MURPHY

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a Probate Court citation proceeding, in which the court found that stocks and bonds standing in the name of the decedent, in possession of respondent and claimed by him as a gift, belonged to the decedent’s estate. The approximate value of the personal property in controversy is $70,000, and respondent has appealed directly to this court on the theory that the administrator failed to establish title and ownership.

The decedent, Mary Hackenbroch, about 75 years of age, died intestate on September 23, 1960. Her husband, Paul…