Melhorn v. Melhorn

By agreement of the parties, these two cases were heard together upon oral testimony before the Ohancllor “sitting as a jury. ’ ’ He dismissed the suits. Complainant appealed in error, and the Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal. We granted certiorari and the cases have been heard here.

In the first case, complaint, as administratrix of John Melhorn, deceased, sued Lee Melhorn for $413, which was in deceased’s billfold at his death and used by Lee Mel-horn in part payment of the funeral expenses, and for $2,-500 on deposit in the First National Bank of Harriman in the joint account of…