Splendore v. Guglielmo

In Manhattan’s East Harlem, on the fiesta of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, in the year 1948, Charles Splendore, the plaintiff, first met the defendant, Mary Madonna. She was then a maid of sixteen summers. And she was fair. Charles was smitten. On Christmas Day, 1949, the twain plighted their troth.

Previously thereto, in October of 1949, Charles and Mary, preparatory to a church wedding and envisaging thereafter lawfully wedded bliss, arranged that a certain bank account, then in the sole name of Mary Madonna, at the Harlem Savings Bank, be changed thenceforth to a joint account in the name of…