McIntyre v. Marshall

We feel confident that the facts of this case show a valid gift causa mortis.

For a number of years Jennie White and Anna B. McVicar were good friends. Prior to February 25, 1922, Mrs. White had been sick with pneumonia, and at that time she had only partially recovered. It was on that day she took Mrs. McVicar with her -to the safety deposit vaults of the Title Trust Company, in Seattle, where she had a lock box. She then signed a card which authorized Mrs. McVicar to have access to, and control of, the contents of that box, and gave her a key thereto, at the same time requesting that, if…