In re Williams

This is an appeal from a surrogate’s decree in a discovery proceeding adjudging that twelve certificates of stock and three savings bank pass books belong to the estate of the deceased, *7James Hennessy, and directing the appellant to deliver the property to the petitioner, the administratrix of the estate. The administratrix claimed that the property belonged to the estate. Margaret Coffey, the appellant, asserted title and ownership in her by reason of a gift causa mortis made to her by the deceased on January 11, 1935, three days before his death. The surrogate held that the gift causa…