Harmon v. McFarlane

The suit is in chancery, and involves the question of whether or not a gift of certain promissory notes by J. N. Harmon, deceased, to his son Ellie "W. Harmon was completed by delivery of the notes.

The litigation arose in this way: J. N. Harmon died,' and left an estate, and J. C. McFarlane, Jr., was appointed executor. Upon the petition of the wife of .the *288deceased the executor filed an answer and inventory of the estate, but in his answer he stated that there were several promissory notes amounting to about two thousand, six hundred dollars belonging to the estate, which were held as…