Blaisdell v. Young

The bank deposits in question stood in the decedent’s name prior to July 24, 1936. On that date the decedent, then ill in a hospital, sent his housekeeper, the defendant Young, to the defendant bank with the request that one of his several deposit books there be transferred into their joint names, with rights of survivorship. In consequence of this request, Norman E. Rand, treasurer of the bank, went to the hospital, and in the presence of Mr. Blaisdell and Miss Young saw to the execution of the following papers: (1) a withdrawal receipt, signed by Mr. Blaisdell, for the sum of $8,761.26,…