Myers v. First National Bank of Scotia

Appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of plaintiff, entered July 31, 1972 in Albany County, upon a decision of the court at a Trial Term, without a jury. In September, 1970 Edward Myers, the father of John Myers, plaintiff’s intestate, received a check in the amount of $4,397.43 representing settlement proceeds of an accident in which John Myers had been injured*. At the time of receipt of the check, John was in a coma in a local hospital. His father took the check to the Colonie Branch of the First National Bank of Scotia and opened a joint account in his name and his son’s…