STEWART, ADM'X v. Barksdale, Gdn.

Mrs. Annie Lemons Stewart, widow of O. L. Stewart, deceased, and administratrix of his estaté, filed a petition in the Chancery Court of Hinds County, Mississippi, asking that the First Federal Savings and Loan Association be required to turn over to her as administratrix the sum of $28,719.08, held by them in a joint account in the name of O. L. Stewart or Shirley Ann Stewart. Henry E. Barksdale was appointed as guardian ad litem of Shirley Ann Stewart, a minor, and resisted this petition. The lower court denied petitioner the relief prayed for and held that the money in said account was the…