Poling v. Belington Bank, Inc.

MAYNARD, Justice:

The appellants, William F. Poling and Candace L. Jacques, filed a declaratory judgment action in the Circuit Court of Barbour County, West Virginia, requesting that the court declare them to be the owners in fee simple of bank stock issued by Belington Bank, Inc.1 and left to them by their grandfather in his will. The appellants’ father, Herman Poling, Jr., following the death of his father and while acting as executor of his father’s estate, had the bank stock issued in his name, not as the owner of a life estate but as the absolute owner. The circuit court determined that…