Lipe v. Farmers State Bank

The plaintiff-appellants brought this action against defendant-appellee administrator and the defendant bank for adjudication of plaintiffs’ claim to $5,276.79 held by the defendant bank in a checking account. The plaintiffs are the six children, all of legal age, of decedent Rudolph Lipe who died intestate on October 2,1967. The defendant administrator, Mabel Lipe, is the decedent’s surviving spouse and stepmother to the children. The decedent had no other children. The Farmers State Bank of Alto Pass (hereinafter called the Bank) by way of counter-complaint made the heirs of the decedent,…