Tyree v. Ortiz

The plaintiff, Teresa Ortiz Tyree, and the defendant, Manuel Ortiz, are mother and son. In dispute between these parties is the possession of a Treasurer’s check in the amount of $6,500.00 payable to the plaintiff by the Barre Trust Company, a banking institution of Barre, Vermont, as.well as a passbook of the same Barre Trust Co., with “Mrs. Leo Ortiz, Trustee for Manuel Ortiz,” written on its face, and showing a balance of $1,761.97.

At the time that the plaintiff brought her Bill in Chancery in the Washington County Court of Chancery both the check and the passbook were in the possession of…