MacOn v. Ciallella

This is a civil action to establish entitlement to funds withdrawn by the defendant from an account at The Old Stone Bank in Providence which carried the designation “Mary Gilday or John A. Ciallella And Payable To Either Or To The Survivor.”

Mary Gilday, known as Mary Pratt upon her remarriage after the death of her second husband, died in 1964. Anne E. Macon, Mary’s daughter, and the administratrix of her estate, is the plaintiff and John Ciallella, Mary’s oldest child, is the defendant. The case was heard by a justice of the Superior Court sitting without a jury, and judgment was entered…