Augsbury v. Shurtliff
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Loren F. Shurtliff, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Jefferson on the 28th day of October, 1905, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court after a trial at the Jefferson Trial Term awarding to tire plaintiff possession of a certain savings bank passbook.
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Appeal by the defendant, Loren F. Shurtliff, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Jefferson on the 28th day of October, 1905, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court after a trial at the Jefferson Trial Term awarding to tire plaintiff possession of a certain savings bank passbook. The action was commenced on the 22d day of May, 1903, to recover possession of a savings bank passbook issued by the Jefferson County Savings Bank on or about January 3, 1891, to one Sarah Ann Boof, plaintiff’s…
1Opinion of the Court
MgLennan, P. J.:
John C. Boof and Sarah Ann Boof were husband and wife, and resided at Theresa, Jefferson county, FT. Y. They had both been married before, but neither had any children. They both had made deposits in the Jefferson County Savings Bank, and a passbook had been issued to each of them. Sarah Ann Boof had a balance upon her book of $911.26, and John C. Boof had a balance upon his *628book of $900.88. They were about eighty years of age, and had each made and executed a will, in which each gave the use of his or her property to the other during life, and upon the death of the survivor…
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