In re the Accounting of Touchstone

W. Newcomb Galyer, S.

The account filed herein includes as assets of the estate, certain United States Government, Series E, Bonds, which are stated to have been in the names of the decedent and his mother, Frances E. Touchstone, and which the petitioner claims belong to her because of a provision in the decedent’s will.

No formal objections to the account have been filed, but, by somewhat devious methods, the question of ownership of the bonds in question has been presented for determination.

It is undisputed that the decedent purchased these bonds with his own funds, and kept them in his…