DePasqua v. Bergstedt

The petitioners, Alphild L. DePasqua and Edna M. Swan, brought a petition in equity in the Probate Court to establish ownership of a savings bank deposit presently in the names of the decedent Victor G. Lundstrom and the respondent Robert G. Lundstrom. There was a final decree that the account was an asset of the estate of Victor G. Lundstrom, from which the respondent Lundstrom appealed.

There was no dispute on the essential facts. On Octob er 17, 1958, Victor G. Lundstrom had an amount on deposit in the Brockton Savings Bank in an account numbered 37891. On that day he took the proceeds from…