Spencer v. Spencer

This is an appeal from an order of the Superior Court of Tuolumne County denying appellant’s request for an order directing respondents to release a bank account. Since the circumstances of this appeal are somewhat unusual, we will set forth the facts in detail.

In 1961 Mary Spencer, who had engaged the respondents as her attorneys, instituted an action in the Superior Court of Tuolumne County for a divorce against her husband, Horace C. Spencer, the appellant herein. On April 8, 1964, approximately three years later, an account was opened with the. Modesto Savings & Loan Association in the…