Cashman v. Mason

NORDBYE, District Judge.

The plaintiff, Edith Cashman, was formerly Edith Cole, and is a niece of Mrs. A. W. Ross, who is now deceased. In June, 1941, plaintiff was living in Illinois, where she was employed as a stenographer. She came to Minneapolis to spend her vacation and while here visited her aunt, Mrs. Ross. There is evidence that at about that time Mrs. Ross told a public accountant, a Mr. Foley, who looked after her income tax matters, that she was going to have her bank accounts placed in the joint names of herself and the plaintiff in that she did not have any heirs and wanted to…