Simpkins v. Old Colony Trust Co.

The plaintiff in this suit in equity seeks to have delivered to her the contents of a safe deposit box, together with the sum of $1,011.89 deposited in the commercial department of the defendant bank. The box was rented and the deposit made by William F. West, who died on September 26, 1919. The defendant admits that *578the box contains five books each representing a deposit in a savings bank, one book representing a deposit in the savings department of a trust company, four $50 United States Liberty bonds, and divers trinkets and mementos, and that it has in its bank the commercial deposit…