Legal Opinion
Duggan v. Hopkins
California Court of Appeal
Decided December 19, 1956No. Civ. 16981PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaufman, J.
This is an appeal by plaintiff Bernadette Duggan from that part of a decree quieting title which awarded the sum of $5,394.96 to Thorne Hopkins, as executor of the estate of Jeanette Thorne, deceased. Said sum had been claimed by appellant as part of a joint account standing in the names of deceased and appellant.
Jeanette Thorne died on January 23, 1954, in the residence of Bernadette Duggan, appellant, with whom she had made her home since March, 1953. Shortly after Mrs. Thorne came to live with appellant, she made appellant a joint tenant on a bank account which she had in the Ocean-Faxon…
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