Crowe v. Peoples Bank & Trust Co.

Lencher, P. J.,

Pertinent precedent is unavailable on the basic question before us, although some decisional law has more recently pointed in favor of the grant of the petition of husband plaintiff in an action in assumpsit at the number above indicated in our court. The question is this: Where husband and wife are owners by the entireties of a bank deposit, and she without his knowledge or consent joins the names of both in action against the bank for that deposit, the bank being unable to ask for interpleader since both husband and wife were named parties of record, may the husband — on his…