Haller v. White

This appeal is from a decree awarding the appellee the sum of $7,500, representing one-half of the balance in a certain savings account. A cross appeal challenges the failure to divide the accumulated interest.

Helen Stallings, a semi-invalid now over eighty years of age, has resided in Annapolis since 1928 with her daughter, Helena S. Haller. In 1954, her sister, Sadie Poole, moved to Annapolis, where she rented an apartment. She was a childless widow who at the time of her death in 1960 was seventy-nine years of age. Between June 29, 1954, and January 6, 1955, she deposited various sums in a…