In re Estate of Gardner

OPINION

By ZIEGEL, J.

This case pends upon exceptions filed to the inventory and appraisement of the estate of Charles W. Gardner, deceased. The exceptor is the decedent’s daughter. She contends that a note inventoried and appraised at $2,900.00 as an asset of decedent’s estate in fact belongs to her and was thus erroneously listed.

It appears that early in January, 1958, exceptor and her husband were about to close a deal for the purchase of a home in Franklin, Ohio. Decedent prevailed upon them instead to purchase a home near where he resided in Preble County, Ohio. It was verbally agreed…