Estate of Silliker v. Osborne

More than four years ago the plaintiff, who is the administratrix of the estate of Jacob W. Silliker, filed a bill in equity to recover the proceeds of three savings accounts which originally stood in the name of Jacob W. Silliker, one in the Androscoggin County Savings Bank, situated in Lewiston, Maine, amounting to $5481.18, another in the Savings Bank of New London in Connecticut, amounting to $5370.72, and the third in the Mariners Savings Bank also located in New London, amounting to $7301.72. The question at issue was whether a valid gift inter vivos had been made of these by Silliker…