In re Del Bello

In disbarring appellant, the Appellate Division said: ‘ ‘ This disciplinary proceeding arose out of a case which passed through this court (see Gorfinkel v. First Nat. Bank in Yonkers, 19 A D 2d 903, affd. 15 N Y 2d 711).” That action involved a bank deposit previously made by Ellen Snyder, also known as Ellen Elliott, in her own name ‘ ‘ in trust for David Gorfinkel”. Such a deposit “is a tentative trust merely, revocable at will, until the depositor dies or completes the gift in his lifetime ”. (Matter of Totten, 179 N. Y. 112,126.)

This lady became appellant’s client in 1953; she became…