Friedman v. Cohan

Two questions are presented in these consolidated appeals from orders of the Probate Court: 1) whether the trial court could have decided as a matter of law, without an evidentiary hearing, that certain negotiable instruments held in accounts in the joint names of the deceased and her children were intended to pass as part of the estate by a will created ten years after the accounts were established, and 2) whether the court could order that those monies in the joint accounts be turned over to a curator pending a resolution of the question whether they should be included in the probate estate.