Glessner v. Security-Peoples Trust Co.

Opinion by

Jambs, J.,

This appeal involves the same savings account in the Security-Peoples Trust Company of Erie, Pa., which was before us in Smith’s Estate, 141 Pa. Superior Ct. 571, 15 A. (2d) 523. We there held that the Orphans’ Court had no jurisdiction to determine the ownership of the account.

On December 5, 1940, Dessie Glessner, as executrix of the Estate of Archie Smith, alias Charles Jones, deceased, filed a bill ,in equity to determine the ownership .of the fund against the bank and Thomas Shreve, who claimed the fund by virtue of the right of survivor-ship in a joint account. Both…