People's State Bank v. Miller's Estate

Florence Miller had a deposit in plaintiff bank of between $1,700 and $1,800. She was afflicted with tuberculosis, and the record discloses that she had on several occasions expressed her desire and intent that defendant Mrs. Fred Zuber should have what property she left at her decease. In June, 1916, Mrs. Zuber presented an order together with Miss Miller’s bank book to the cashier of the bank. The order was not preserved, and its exact purport does not appear, except that it was the intent of the order, as the cashier now remembers it, to make the account a joint one, substantially as was…