Saving Investment & Trust Co. v. Crouch

Backes, V. C.

Edwin M. Green died leaving an estate consisting mainly of shares of capital stock of a railroad company and of four industrial corporations. The rest was cash, household effects and personal belongings. By the fourth item of his will he bequeathed the shares of stock to his sister, Mary P. Crouch, and to his nephews and nieces -by fourteen separate bequests in form, of which the following are typical:

‘‘Fourth — I make the following bequests:

"‘(a) To my sister, Mary F. Crouch, of Van Wert, Ohio, two hundred (200) shares of the stock of the Dallas Manufacturing Company of…