Bray v. Illinois National Bank

Plaintiff, Kurtis B. Bray, filed suit in Sangamon County to recover funds from defendant Illinois National Bank (hereinafter the Bank) which were deposited by John B. Bray. Plaintiff alleged that the deposit of funds by John B. Bray in an account titled “Kurtis B. Bray by John B. Bray— Individual Account or Joint Account without Survivorship — Passbook Time Deposit Account” created a joint account, a completed gift or established an agency relationship such that the Bank could not lawfully pay the funds in the account to anyone other than Kurtis B. Bray. Upon the Bank’s motion the trial court…