Drain v. Brookline Savings Bank

This is an action of contract by writ dated April 30, 1948, brought in a District Court by Mary A. Sullivan, an insane person, against the Brookline Savings Bank to recover the amount of a “joint and survivor account” in the bank, standing in the names of Mary A. Sullivan and Daniel F. Carney. The bank interpleaded and Carney was made a party defendant. G. L. (Ter. Ed.) e. 168, § 36. After trial', on January 19, 1949, the judge found for the bank and made no express finding as to Carney. During the trial the plaintiff filed sixteen requests for rulings, most of which were denied by the judge.…