Craver-Farrell v. Anderson

SENIOR JUSTICE WHITING

delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this appeal, we consider whether the presumption of survivorship provided in Code § 6.1-125.5(A) applies to funds formerly held in joint bank accounts, but no longer so held at the time of the death of one of the parties to those accounts.

Since the survivors to the former joint accounts in issue prevailed in the trial court, we consider the evidence in the light most favorable to them. That evidence appears in the following summary of their testimony.

Ralph L. Anderson and Gladys C. Anderson, his wife, were close friends of Harvey…