Legal Opinion

Schollmier v. Schoendelen

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided October 11, 1889PublishedCited by 27 opinions

Appeal from Scott District Court. — Hon. C. M. Waterman, Judge. Action to recover an amount of money deposited in the German Savings Bank of Davenport by plaintiff’s intestate, and withdrawn after her death by defendants, and alleged to have been by them wrongfully converted to their own use. A verdict was returned for plaintiff' by direction of the court,, and judgment rendered thereon for $2,006.58 and costs.' Defendants appeal.

1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.

Katharine Schollmier died intestate on the twenty-fifth day of December, 1886. For about fifteen years before her death she had made her home with the defendants, her daughters, living a part of that time with one of them, and the remainder with the other. In her lifetime she kept an account with the German Savings Bank, and on the twenty-eighth day of May, 1886, it had to her credit abalance of $1,730.18. On that day decedent visited the bank with her bank-book, which contained a statement of her account with it, and had the assistant cashier write on the page next after the end of the…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Martin v. . FunkNew York Court of Appeals · 1878
  2. Basket v. HassellSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
  3. Gerrish v. New Bedford Institution for SavingsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1880
  4. Davis v. NeyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1878
  5. Ellis v. SecorMichigan Supreme Court · 1875

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3Cited by27 opinions

  1. Opitz v. KarelWisconsin Supreme Court · 1903
  2. Tucker v. TuckerSupreme Court of Iowa · 1908
  3. Main's Appeal From ProbateSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1901
  4. Jacobs v. JolleyIndiana Court of Appeals · 1902
  5. In re the Estate of BrownSupreme Court of Iowa · 1901

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