Proulx v. St. Anne's Credit Union of Fall River

This is an action in which the plaintiff alleges that she is entitled, as surviving joint owner, to the proceeds of a joint share account held between her and her late father, Frank Camuso.

Defendant by its answer denies the claim and alleges that the shares in the account demanded by the plaintiff had been pledged by the decedent prior to his death. >.

The court found for the plaintiff and assessed damages in the sum of $2,657.19.

The reported evidence indicates that the plaintiff and her father, Frank Camuso, opened a joing savings account in 1968 with the defendant. In 1977, Frank Camuso…