Millman v. Streeter

This cause is before us on the appeal of the respondent Bertha E. Streeter from a decree in equity, entered in the superior court, ordering the payment and delivery to the complainant of certain money and other personal property claimed by said respondent as a 'gift from complainant’s intestate.

The complainant is administrator of the estate of Dr. Sheffield Smith, who died intestate in August 1937, at the age of eighty-three years. Bertha E. Streeter will hereinafter be referred to as the respondent, the other respondent being the probate clerk who was joined merely as an appointed custodian…