Yaromey v. King

This is an appeal by Virginia Yaromey, Angela Takovich, and Frances Ambrose from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Preston County in an action involving the ownership of certain bank accounts which had belonged to the appellants’ deceased mother, Anna Thaler. At the time of Mrs. Thaler’s death, the accounts were registered in her name and the names of two of her children, the appellees, Janet King and Frank Thaler, as joint tenants with the right of survivorship. The question in the action below was whether the accounts passed solely to Janet King and Frank Thaler as the surviving tenants…