Peoples Savings Bank v. Staples

This is a bill of interpleader brought by the Peoples Savings Bank in Providence to determine the ownership of a deposit in said bank amounting on January 1, 1923, to $1,512.35, and two Liberty Bonds of the par value of $100 each.

The bonds were deposited for safe keeping with the complainant by Maude B. Staples who also made the deposits of money constituting the bank account in question. The account was opened in 1916 by a deposit of $100 by said Maude B. Staples and a bank book representing the account was issued in her name. From the time the first deposit was made until her death Maude B.…