Houswerth v. Gill

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE BRYANT

delivered the opinion of the court:

Frank J. Houswerth and his first wife, Kate Houswerth, owned forty shares of stock in the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in joint tenancy with right of survivorship. Shortly after Kate Houswerth died, in 1953, a meeting was held between Frank J. Houswerth and the defendants, Leona Gill, his daughter, and James L. Houswerth, his son, pursuant to which Leona Gill and Frank J. Houswerth took the three certificates, representing the forty shares, to the office of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, at which time he…