Gordon v. Thornton

MATHERNE, Judge.

Having accounted for all other properties of the testator, Eva T. Fonville, the co-executors of that estate differ on the proper distribution of 32 shares of the common stock of the Citizens State Bank, Trenton, Tennessee, and 7 shares of the common stock of the Merchants Bank, Dyer, Tennessee. The defendant co-executor, Vance Thornton, claims the shares of stock as surviving donee third party beneficiary by virtue of the fact that the stock certificates were issued to “Mrs. Eva Fonville or Vance C. Thornton.” The plaintiff co-executor, Jere Gordon, claims that the shares of…