First Nat. Bank v. Lawrence

The suit is to test the right of the surviving wife to withdraw funds in bank, carried on savings account in the joint name of husband and wife. The cause was tried on agreed statement of facts. Omitting formal parts, the agreed facts are:

“ * * * On July 22, 1913, an account was opened in the savings department of the defendant in the joint name of. Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Lawrence, and an initial deposit of $75 was made in said account, whereupon the defendant issued its passbook No. 34117, showing said account in the name of Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Lawrence, with the following language stamped on…