In re the Estate of Caldwell

Citations

• 8 Del. Ch. 358

Syllabus

<p>A deposit by a testator in a savings bank in Boston to his own credit as trustee for another, upon proof satisfactorily showing that the nominal cestui que trust was a fictictious person and that it was in fact the money of the trustee, was held to pass under the will to specific legatees of “my money that is in the banks in Boston, Mass.”</p> <p>Practice respecting the payment of money into Court by an executor, under “An Act for the Relief of Executors, Administrators and Trustees,” passed March 23, 1881, and the distribution thereof.</p> <p>When money has been paid into Court under the Act of March 23, 1881, for relief of executors, &c., a petition by parties claiming the fund is a proper mode of proceeding.</p>