In Re Estate of Bogert

BAKES, Justice.

This case presents the question of the status of securities which were acquired with community property and which were held by a husband and wife in a stock account with a brokerage firm, which account was designated as a joint tenancy account with right of survivorship.

Decedent Ruth D. Bogert, who was married to Edmund A. Bogert, Sr., died testate on November 22, 1972. In her will she devised all of her property to the Bogerts’ three children. Two of those children survived her and they, appellants Rozalys B. Smith and E. A. “Dee” Bogert, were des ignated the personal…