Dickinson v. Leominster Savings Bank
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, on an account annexed, to recover money deposited with the defendant bank in the name of the plaintiff during her minority. The account annexed was made up of twelve items, consisting of deposits numbered from 1 to 11, made from November 20, 1867, to December 1, 1870, and the remaining item of “ dividends,” in all amounting to five hundred and ten dollars.
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Contract, on an account annexed, to recover money deposited with the defendant bank in the name of the plaintiff during her minority. The account annexed was made up of twelve items, consisting of deposits numbered from 1 to 11, made from November 20, 1867, to December 1, 1870, and the remaining item of “ dividends,” in all amounting to five hundred and ten dollars. Trial in the Superior Court, before Brigham, C. J., who ruled that the plaintiff could not maintain her action, and ordered the jury to return a verdict for the defendant, and reported the case for the determination of this court.…
1Opinion of the CourtField, J.
The evidence that the deposits stood on the books of the bank in the name of the plaintiff, and that a deposit-book *50numbered 221 had been issued in her name, was evidence against the bank that it had been indebted to the plaintiff to the amount of the deposits and the dividends declared thereon. The plaintiff testified that she made deposits numbered 1, 3, 6, and 10, and that her uncle, in 'her presence, made deposit numbered 2, and that all these were deposits of her money. These amount to $16.70. She also testified that deposits numbered 4, 5, 7, 8, and 9 were of her money, given her -by…
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