Manufacturers National Bank v. Schirmer

This is a chancery suit to determine the ownership of certain moneys on deposit and in the possession of plaintiff bank.

The facts have been stipulated and are as follows: On July 30, 1937, Jessie G. Sutherland, now deceased, had on deposit with the Manufacturers National Bank of Detroit in a savings account $1,020. On that date Mrs. Sutherland and her daughter, Janet Etta Sutherland Schirmer, went to the bank together; and the mother withdrew the money from her savings account in her own name and opened a new savings account in the name of herself and her daughter payable to either while both…