Chippendale v. North Adams Savings Bank

This is a bill in equity to obtain possession of a tin box and its contents. The case was reserved * for this court upon the pleadings and master’s report.

The tin box contained four deposit books, two of the deposits being in the Hoosac Savings Bank and two in the North Adams Savings Bank. The other papers in the box were not of importance. The question presented is whether these deposits belong to Mrs. Worthington or to the administrator of the estate of Henry D. Williams.

Henry D. Williams, the plaintiff’s intestate, deposited his surplus earnings in the two savings banks mentioned above: He…