Legal Opinion
Dent v. Wright
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided October 30, 1995No. 94-901PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Robert H. Dudley, Justice.
On May 6, 1993, plaintiff Orena Dent gave a joint and several general power of attorney to her sister, defendant Lula Wright, and her nephew, defendant J.L. Wright, Jr. Lula Wright is the mother of J.L. Wright, Jr. On the same day plaintiff opened a joint bank account in her and her sister’s names. There was no designation to the banking institution that the account was not to be the property of both joint tenants. See Ark. Code Ann. § 23-32-1005(1)(A) (Repl. 1994). Both plaintiff and defendant Lula Wright wrote checks on the account. Appellant wrote most of the…
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