City Bank Farmers' Trust Co. v. Bowers

KNOX, District Judge.

This suit was tried before the court upon an agreed state of facts, and in the absence of the jury. Tho material facts axe these:

Evelyn Bostwiek Voronoff, a citizen and resident of Franco, died at Paris on March 3,1921. Owning property located within the United States, sho made disposition of the same through the medium of an American will, in which Edgerton L. 'Winthrop, Jr., was named as executor. The document was probated in New York county, and subsequently, upon April 15, 1921, Mr. Winthrop *884qualified as executor. He acted as such until his demise upon January…