Miller v. Silverman

Edward A. New, defendant’s intestate, died August 24, 1926. In his safe deposit box in the safe deposit vault of the Manufacturers Trust Company there was found after his death a number of securities consisting of stock certificates and bonds. He was the lessee of the safe deposit box and there was a concession that he had the sole right of access thereto. The bonds were respectively three Tennessee Electric and four Baltimore and Ohio Railroad of an agreed aggregate value of approximately $7,500, the remainder of the securities being certificates of shares of stocks in various corporations,…