Compton v. Hendricks

A husband and wife were of the ages eighty-seven and seventy-nine respectively. The wife had two thousand dollars, derived from the sale of her separate estate, which she delivered to her husband to deposit in a designated bank. The husband deposited the money and received two time certificates of deposit for equal amounts. After one year they were renewed for the principal and accumulated interest, so that each new certificate was for one *809thousand and fifty dollars. The new certifi'cates were identical in all respects, a copy of one cf which being as follows:

“ Payable to either or the…