Corcoran v. Hotaling
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Mary Hotaling and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 3d day of March, 1914, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Present—Ingraham, P. J., McLaughlin, Scott and Dowling, JJ.
The following is the opinion delivered at Special Term:
Greenbaum, J.:
The question to be decided in this case is whether certain deposits made in the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank belong to the plaintiff or to the estate of her husband, Joseph B. Corcoran, who died intestate. Two accounts were opened with the bank on February 18, 1909, each with the sum of $2,505.48, as follows: One in the name of “Joseph B. Corcoran or wife, Jennie M.,” and the other in the name of “Jennie M. Corcoran or husband, Joseph B.” Defendants contend that…
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