William Marsh Rice University v. Birdwell

MURPHY, Justice.

Appellants appeal from a judgment which held that four bank accounts passed outside the will of James Cecil Brown, deceased, as joint tenancies with right of sur-vivorship. In contention is whether the Probate Court erred in finding the accounts were joint tenancies with right of survivor-ship instead of finding the four bank accounts passed to Appellants through the residuary clause of the will. We affirm.

James Cecil Brown (Decedent) died in 1975 and left a typewritten will dated September 16, 1963. There is no dispute about the validity and due execution of his will. Garnett…