Montgomery v. Blankenship

Disposition of some $800,000 worth of corporate stocks and $17,426.33 in cash, the property of Mrs. Ida M. Bottoms who died in Miller County, Arkansas, on December 21, 1944, at the age of 83, is involved in this appeal.

This action arose as a suit by the heirs at law of Mrs. Bottoms against Winston Montgomery, as Executor of the estate of Mrs. Bottoms and the Texarkana National Bank of Texarkana, Texas, which claimed to hold the stocks and cash in question as trustee under a trust created by the decedent. Involved are certificates of stock in Crowell Long Leaf Lumber Co., Inc., Meridian Land &…