Legal Opinion
Brown v. Bowery Savings Bank
New York Court of Appeals
Decided December 18, 1980PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Chief Judge Cooke.
This appeal presents the issue of the ensuing liability of a bank to a person whose name is removed without her permission from a joint savings account at the behest of the other person named on the account.
Although section 675 of the Banking Law immunizes banks with regard to some transactions involving joint savings accounts, it does not do so here. Plaintiff is entitled to recover only one half of the amount in the account, however, and the order of the Appellate Division should be modified accordingly.
Plaintiff and her son, William J. Brown, opened…
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