Stiles v. Newschwander

The opinion, of the court was delivered by

IÍEHBR, J.

The matter here in controversy is the title to a fund on deposit in a savings bank of Newark. The account was originally in the name of appellant’s decedent, Emma L. Newschwander; and all the moneys deposited therein were her property. On December 1st, 1941, she made application to the bank to “add the name” of her brother Albert, with whom she had her abode, “to my account * * *, making same payable to either or survivor;” and the request was granted. On September 26th, 1944, she suffered a cerebral hemorrhage; and she died on the ensuing…