Cohen v. Goldberg

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Roberts,

Morris and Frances Cohen were married on July 19,1948 and lived together until Frances Cohen’s death on January 1, 1965. During their marriage, the Cohens opened three savings accounts in the names of “Frances Cohen or Morris Cohen.”

On December 16, 1964, Mrs. Cohen instructed her nephew, Jerry Goldberg, to take from a safe deposit box rented jointly by Mrs. Cohen and Goldberg the passbook for the savings account in the Beneficial Savings Fund Society of Philadelphia and withdraw therefrom $2,000; a check was drawn payable to Frances Cohen, which she endorsed and…