First National Bank of Ronceverte v. Bell

Haden, Chief Justice:

This is an appeal by the First National Bank of Ronce-verte, administrator of the estate of Mary K. Bell, deceased, from a final order of the Circuit Court of Mercer County entering judgment for John Wade Bell, Jr. and Norman B. Blake, and overruling the Bank’s motion to set aside the verdict and grant it a new trial.

The civil action generating this appeal was one brought by the Bank to recover possession of certain securities which were alleged to be assets of the decedent’s estate and to be withheld wrongfully from the administrator by the defendants. Bell and Blake…