Gerner v. Kespelher

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Allen M. Stearns,

The question here involved is whether plaintiffs, as surviving executrices of the estate of their deceased mother, or defendants, her son and daughter-in-law, are entitled to shares of a federal savings and loan association which were held in the names of the defendant Louis C. Kespelher and the decedent jointly with the right of survivorship.

Plaintiffs filed a bill in equity to recover from Louis C. Kespelher the sum of $2,975 averring that defendant had caused the same to be withdrawn from the bank account of his mother, a woman then 77 years old, had…