Walker v. Farmer

ALTENBERND, Judge.

Irma A. Walker and Dorothy I. Collins appeal an order of the probate court declaring that two bank accounts are assets in the estate of Lettie V. Combee. Ms. Walker and Ms. Collins were signatories on the two bank accounts along with Ms. Combee, and they had an express right of survivor-ship by virtue of the contractual language on the bank’s signature contract card. The trial court recognized that the bank’s signature contract cards invoked a statutory presumption that the accounts were joint accounts which became the property of these two women upon Ms. Combee’s death. §…