Snidow v. Brotherton

This suit involves the ownership of certain personal' estate, formerly owned by W. H. Carter, deceased,, now claimed both by his administrator and by the-guardian of Anna Ross Brotherton, an infant, under an alleged gift by the decedent in expectation of death. The trial court adjudged the gift to be valid, and the-administrator assigns error.

Carter, who was a laborer, having been fatally injured while at work (a tram ear loaded with stone having-run over him), was taken to a commissary building-near by. While arrangements were being made to-carry him to a hospital in Bluefield, W. Va., for…