American Nat. Bank of Nashville v. West

The American National Bank, administrator of Mrs. Vera L. Cryer, deceased, sold her personal effects at auction. At this sale Mrs. Karen M. West bought among other things a .box of deceased’s old clothes for $9.50. She later found in a pocket of a bathrobe in this box two of deceased’s rings — a cameo of small value and a diamond of the value of $2,500.

The relatives and the administrator had made careful but unsuccessful searches for these rings; and no one knew, or had cause to suspect, that deceased had left them in the bathrobe pocket. On learning of their discovery the administrator…