Kleinberg v. Heller

In this discovery proceeding commenced by the executor of the estate of Jessie Lang against Harriet Heller, survivor-tenant of a joint savings account, the survivor-tenant appeals from so much of the decree of the ¡Surrogate’s Court, Bronx County ('Gel-bawd, S.), entered April 24, 1974, which adjudged and decreed that Harriet Heller pay to the executor money she withdrew from the joint savings account in excess of her moiety during the lifetime of1 the decedent Jessie Lang.

The Surrogate observed as follows (76 Misc 2d 636): “ Decedent died on March 31, 1972 at the age of 91. Until October,…