Coughlin v. Farmers & Mechanics Savings Bank

Plaintiff appeals from the judgment entered in favor of the defendants.

The action was brought by plaintiff as administratrix of the estate of her deceased husband, Edmond Coughlin, to recover certain trust deposits made by the decedent in his lifetime in the defendant bank in savings accounts in trust for the other defendants.

Two grounds are urged for holding that these trust deposits did not vest the funds so deposited in the individual defendants, but became assets of decedent’s estate: First, that, at the time he made the trust deposits the decedent was insane and suffering from insane…