Snow v. Martensen

J. Fred Jones, Justice.

This is an appeal by Miss Linda Ellen Snow and Mrs. Dale Loyd Smith from a Washington County Probate Court judgment holding the appellee, Marjorie T. Martensen, to be the surviving joint tenant, and therefore sole owner, of a savings account in the approximate amount of $70,000 deposited with the First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Fayetteville in the names of Blanche M. Box and Marjorie M. Martensen.1

The facts appear as follows: Mrs. Blanche M. Box was 83 years of age when she died testate in Washington County, Arkansas, on October 17, 1971. She left as her…