In re the Estate of Lockwood

—Casey, J.

Appeal from an order of the Surrogate’s Court of Otsego County (Farley, J.H.O.), entered October 24, 1995, which granted petitioner’s application to disallow a claim made by respondent against the estate of Helen P. Lockwood.

Respondent appeals from an order of Surrogate’s Court granting petitioner’s motion for summary judgment disallowing respondent’s claim against two bank accounts in decedent’s name. According to respondent, two days before decedent’s death, she gave him two bank books along with signed withdrawal slips and told him to cash them after her funeral. A week after the…