In Re Estate of Foster

The Administrator of the estate of Uriah Odie Foster brought a citation proceeding under section 183 of the Probate Act for an order requiring John R. Mansell to turn over to the administrator, as property of the estate, a sum of money which had been on deposit in a bank in the name of Foster and Mansell as joint tenants. After a hearing the Circuit Court of Hamilton County found that a joint tenancy account had been created and that the money was not the property of the decedent’s estate.

Uriah Odie Foster was 86 years of age when he died intestate on May 6, 1957. He had been in the hospital…