Gearheart v. Bank of Commerce & Savings

YOUNGDAHL, District Judge.

This cause came on to be heard on motions of plaintiff for summary judgment and of defendant to require the plaintiff to secure ancillary letters of administration in the District of Columbia.

Plaintiff’s decedent, a resident of Virginia, died on January 1, 1955. Plaintiff qualified as administrator of her estate in Virginia. An asset of the estate, the sum of $8,065.65, is on deposit to decedent’s credit in a savings account at the Bank of Commerce & Savings of Washington, D. C., defendant, in the District of Columbia.

More than six months after decedent’s death,…