Succession of Lantz

BOLIN, Judge.

Ownership of $8,660.64, deposited by an insurance company in the registry of the lower court in a concursus proceeding, is the sole issue in this case.

Claimants to the deposited funds are Mary Gray M. Walker and Ralph W. Cornelius, the two children of decedent, Mrs. Byrd Morris Lantz. The lower court decreed Mary Gray Walker to be the owner of the money and Ralph Cornelius has appealed.

The case was tried on the pleadings, the record as made up from the succession proceedings and a rather lengthy stipulation of facts, only a few of which we perceive to be pertinent to a decision…