Northcott v. Livingood

This suit has for its objective a determination of the ownership of $310 to the credit of Charles F. De Monde's checking account in the First National Bank of Shreveport, Louisiana, on January 26, 1942, the date of his death.

Plaintiff is the adopted son and universal legatee of the deceased, while defendant, Mrs. Jeanette Livingood, is his sister and nearest of kin.

The pleadings disclose that plaintiff and Mrs. Livingood each asserted claim to the $310 but in brief in this court defendant confines her assertion of ownership to $140 of the deposit under an alleged contract creating a joint…