Stout v. Sutphen

John M. Wall and Marie Louise Stout were married in 1899, and sometime thereafter bank accounts were constituted to the credit of Marie Louise Wall and John M. Wall and the survivor of them as joint tenants, in the First National Bank and the Bound Brook Trust Company, both in Bound Brook, New Jersey, and also in West Side Savings Bank in New York City. Other than the records of these banking institutions which disclose the character of the accounts, there is no proof of the circumstances accompanying and surrounding their creation. All parties now in interest assume from the words used that…