Bean v. Bean
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Probate Appear. Trial by jury and verdict for the appellants. Transferred from the September term, 1901, of the superior court by Peaslee, J. The issue tried was whether John I). Bean in his lifetime gave to the appellants, his wife and daughter, certificates for. $2,400 of the guaranty fund of the Guaranty Savings Bank of Manchester, twenty-four shares of the stock of the New Hampshire Fire Insurance Company, sixteen shares of the stock of the New Hampshire Trust Company,…
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Probate Appear. Trial by jury and verdict for the appellants. Transferred from the September term, 1901, of the superior court by Peaslee, J. The issue tried was whether John I). Bean in his lifetime gave to the appellants, his wife and daughter, certificates for. $2,400 of the guaranty fund of the Guaranty Savings Bank of Manchester, twenty-four shares of the stock of the New Hampshire Fire Insurance Company, sixteen shares of the stock of the New Hampshire Trust Company, nineteen shares of the stock of the People’s Fire Insurance Company, ten shares of the stock of the Bank of New England,…
1Opinion of the CourtBingham, J.
The appellants claim certain certificates of stock and savings-bank books as a gift from the testator. At the trial they offered themselves as Avitnesses to prove the gift, but were not allowed to testify in respect to facts occurring in the lifetime of the testator, unless they were by being permitted to testify that the unsealed envelope enclosing the securities Avas in the possession of the wife the moment after his decease; that it had upon it an inscription which read, “The property of Electa C. Bean and Emma R. Mead ” ; and that the securities were certificates of stock and savings-bank…
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