Cart v. Cart

This is an action for the dissolution of a bank account standing in the names of the parties and subject to with*458drawal only upon the signatures of both of them, a,nd for an adjudication that the moneys in said account constitute the property of the plaintiff alone.

The proof establishes the following facts: The parties were married on December 22, 1938, at a civil ceremony performed in the Bronx Borough Hall, but with the understanding that a rabbinical marriage ceremony would follow within a few weeks thereafter. Prior to the civil marriage, the plaintiff had on deposit in various savings…