Cox v. Womack

GOODWYN, Justice.

This case involves a dispute as to the ownership of $3,000 which had been on deposit in a checking account with the First National Bank of Guntersville. The appeal is brought by Mary L. Cox, one of the claimants, from a final judgment awarding the fund to the other claimant, Viola Womack, as executrix of the last will and testament of Lemuel Cephen Lewellen.

There seems to be no dispute that the $3,000, when deposited, belonged to Lewellen, whose true name was Lem Allen. He had withdrawn this sum from his account with a bank in Piedmont, Alabama, and placed it in the custody…