Rogan Estate

Opinion by

Mb. Justice Eagen,

This is an appeal from a decree of the Orphans’ Court of Allegheny County refusing to take off a compulsory nonsuit entered at the jury trial of a citation to determine the ownership of the funds in a checking account.

The issue arose in the following manner. Michael D. Eogan died February 14, 1958. On the date of his death, there was on deposit in the Allegheny Trust Company of Pittsburgh the sum of $18,325.09 in a joint checking account in the names of the decedent and his daughter-in-law, Sheila P. Eogan. Within a matter of days following his death, Sheila P.…