Irondale Bank v. Crocker

PUDLOWSKI, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered in an interpleader action filed by Irondale Bank (Bank) to determine the rights of two claimants to funds held by Bank in four Certificate of Deposit (CD) accounts. Respondent is the personal representative of the Estate of Leva Getty, and appellant is Tenna Bell Crocker, Getty’s niece. The trial court held that because the joint tenancy in the CDs, which at one time existed between Getty and appellant, has been dissolved, respondent is the rightful owner of the CDs; we now affirm.

We review the trial court’s decision under the…