In re the Estate of Butta

Decree, Surrogate’s Court, Bronx County (Lee Holzman, S.), entered on or about September 9, 2002, which, inter alia, granted the petition, adjudged the subject account a joint account with right of survivorship, and directed the bank to recognize petitioner as the sole owner, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The testimony of a bank employee that the signature cards used by the bank when the subject account was opened contained right of survivorship language was, in the face of the bank’s inability to produce the actual signature card for the account, sufficient proof that such language in…