Balfour v. Seitz

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Benjamin R. Jones,

This appeal presents an oft litigated issue: Whether under the circumstances a gift inter vivos of a bank account has been established.

John L. Balfour, a resident of Butler County,: .died intestate, August 12, 1955.

Sometime prior to 1930 decedent opened in Ms own name a savings account in tbe Mars National Bank of Mars, Pa. Approximately twenty to twenty-two years later — between October 1950 and September 26, 1952 — tbe name of Letitia Seitz, one of decedent’s nine cliildren, was added to this account which was then styled “John L. Balfour or Letitia…