In re the Judicial Settlement of the Account of Mead

Ketcham, S.—

The decedent, having an ordinary deposit account in a trust company, drew his check thereon to the order of his daughter for $20,000 and three days before his death delivered the same to her. She delivered it to her own bank, which, through its correspondent bank, collected it from the trust company on which it was drawn, but it was not paid until two days after the decedent’s death, and the amount then paid reached the hands of the payee.

The daughter is one of the executors, who claims in the present accounting that by the delivery of the check to her and its payment “ she became…