White v. Bank of Angola

The action is brought to recover the amount on deposit in defendant bank to the credit of decedent at the time of his death. The answer admits that the amount alleged in the complaint was on deposit in the bank of defendant at the time of decedent’s death, and that the same stood to the credit of decedent in an interest book issued to him, but alleged that,- to thel knowledge of defendant’s officers, the deposit was the property of the aged mother of decedent who) for convenience in managing her affairs, arranged to have her deposit carried in the name of her son, the decedent, so that he…