Corrigan v. Coughlin

Frank J. Corrigan, in his capacity as Executor of the Estate of Hazel M. Lorman, filed a bill for declaratory judgment in the probate court. He asked the court to determine whether certain joint and survivorship accounts were valid. These accounts were created in October 1979, two years before Ms. Lorman’s death, when she was eighty-four. The other names on the accounts are three nieces and one nephew of the childless Ms. Lorman: Rita McKenna, Marilyn Corrigan, Mary Gorbett and Reverand Edward Freeman. It is the circumstances underlying the creation of the accounts that is at issue in this…