Barker v. Aiello

MOYLAN, Judge.

This is an appeal from a decision entered in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, ordering that the assets of the estate of the deceased Ethel Barker Gamble include the monies in two bank accounts totalling $51,388.33. Edgar Barker, the appellant, contends that the accounts were trust accounts and that the monies became his property at Mrs. Gamble’s death. For the reasons stated infra, we shall reverse the circuit court.

Ethel Barker Gamble died March 25, 1986, survived by her son Edgar Barker (“Edgar”), the appellant. Another son, Carl Barker (“Carl”), and her second husband,…