Holbrook v. Hendricks' Estate

This case presents a question in the law of joint bank deposits not heretofore directly and explicitly passed on by this court. We are called upon to deter mine whether or not the language of a -written agreement with a savings bank, signed by both the depositors at the time the account was opened, in form providing that moneys deposited to the credit of the account shall be payable to either of the depositors or to the survivor of them, conclusively establishes and defines the title of the respective parties to the moneys in the account; or whether extrinsic evidence may be received for the…