Jameson v. Bain

OPINION

TIJERINA, Justice.

This is an appeal from a declaratory judgment that determined the character of the parties’ funds, on deposit in savings accounts and trust accounts at San Antonio Saving Association, to be community property. Under the trial court’s order, one-half of the balances in the accounts passed to the estate of Paul E. Jameson, Sr., deceased. Appellant, Bessie A. Jameson, the surviving wife, claims the funds as her separate property and appeals the ruling of the court.

Appellant and her husband used community property funds to open the joint tenancy accounts with rights of…