LaValley v. Pere Marquette Employes' Credit Union

The plaintiff and appellant was an employee of the Pere Marquette Railroad Company. The defendant is the Pere Marquette Employes’ Credit Union. The action is assumpsit, brought by plaintiff to recover his savings of many years. They had been deposited with defendant and disbursed by defendant to another without, plaintiff contends, his knowledge or consent.

Several years after the opening of the account, and in the year 1947, plaintiff Clinton LaValley changed it to a joint and survivor account with his son, Richard, both signing the instruments required. Plaintiff’s motive in so doing had to…