In re the Judicial Settlement of the Estate of Lounsberry

Testatrix, in her lifetime, owned certain bank accounts represented by certificates of deposit payable to herself. These her daughter Cassie V. Brennan claimed by a gift from testatrix made three days before the latter’s death. Certain legatees brought appropriate proceedings in Surrogate’s Court to compel the restoration of these certificates, and the avails of such as had been cashed by Mrs. Brennan, to the estate.

There was also one deposit of $1,398.91, which, when first deposited, on November 1, 1920, was represented by a certificate of deposit issued to testatrix and her daughter Cassie…