Washam v. First National Bank

George Rose Smith, Justice.

This case, like many earlier ones, involves a joint bank account that was not set up either in compliance with the statute or in a form precisely similar to any account that we have considered in a previous decision. Here the litigation is between the estate of Don-Washam, Jr., deceased, and his son, the appellant, now eleven years old. This appeal is from a probate court judgment- holding that the plaintiff-appellee First National Bank, as administrator of the elder Washam’s estate, is entitled to the entire account.

The facts are comparatively simple and wholly…