Bradford v. Eastman
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on September 2, 1916, by Emeline Bradford of Lynn, and afterwards allowed to be prosecuted by the administrator of her estate, to compel the defendant Lilia Eastman to transfer and turn over to the plaintiff certain deposits belonging to Emeline Bradford and her estate in the Lynn Institution for Savings, the Commonwealth Savings Bank of Lynn and the Salem Savings Bank, these three banks also being made defendants.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on September 2, 1916, by Emeline Bradford of Lynn, and afterwards allowed to be prosecuted by the administrator of her estate, to compel the defendant Lilia Eastman to transfer and turn over to the plaintiff certain deposits belonging to Emeline Bradford and her estate in the Lynn Institution for Savings, the Commonwealth Savings Bank of Lynn and the Salem Savings Bank, these three banks also being made defendants. The case was referred to a master, who filed a report which contained the facts that are stated in the opinion. Later the case was heard…
1Opinion of the CourtDe Courcy, J.
These are the facts, as found by the master. In December, 1914, Emeline Bradford, a widow seventy-two years of age, was planning to go to Nova Scotia to visit her sister, who was the defendant’s mother. Her property consisted of three savings bank deposits, amounting to about $2,500. She caused the deposits to be put in the names of herself and the defendant, and delivered possession of the deposit books to the defendant on the latter’s promise to return them whenever so requested. It is expressly found that “the plaintiff’s intention in delivering possession of the books to the defendant was…
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