Newitt v. Dawe

OPINION

By the Court,

Orr, C. J.;

This appeal presents for determination the question of whether or not the common-law rule, to the effect that where one of the joint payees of a bill or note dies, title to the instrument passes to the surviving payees to the exclusion of the representatives of the deceased, is modified by chapter 21, session laws of 1939, page 15, viz: “An Act to define the manner in which joint tenancy may be created,” approved February 23, 1939.

The following facts appear:

One Harris and wife had executed their promissory note for $12,500 to the order of William J. Dawe or Sue…