Hill v. Stevenson
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Bill iN equity, brought by Harriet Hill and Isabella Stevenson against the latter’s husband, as administrator of the estate of the late Alice Murch, who was the complainants’ mother, setting out that, at the decease of Mrs. Murch, there was a sum of money deposited by her in the Saco and Biddeford Savings Institution, and then standing in her name, which she had given to these two daughters, and had delivered the bank book to Nehemiah Hill, the husband of one of them, at the…
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Bill iN equity, brought by Harriet Hill and Isabella Stevenson against the latter’s husband, as administrator of the estate of the late Alice Murch, who was the complainants’ mother, setting out that, at the decease of Mrs. Murch, there was a sum of money deposited by her in the Saco and Biddeford Savings Institution, and then standing in her name, which she had given to these two daughters, and had delivered the bank book to Nehemiah Hill, the husband of one of them, at the time of such gift, which was established by the testimony of Capt. Hill, who said he had the custody of the book from…
1Opinion of the CourtAppleton, C. J.
A delivery to a donee of a savings bank book, containing entries of deposits to the credit of the donor, with the intent to give the donee the deposits represented by the book, is a good delivery to constitute a complete gift of such deposits. Camp’s Appeal, 36 Conn., 88. Such delivery vests the equitable title in the donee without assignment.
The delivery may be to the donee or to some other person for the donee. Dole v. Lincoln, 31 Maine, 422 ; Marston v. Marston, 21 N. H., 491; Borneman v. Sidlinger, 15 Maine, 429; Wells v. Tucker, 3 Binney, 366.
The evidence satisfactorily shows that Alice…
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