Plainfield Trust State National Bank v. Rinehart

Mijsttz, J. S. C.

Plaintiff, The Plainfield Trust State National Bank, guardian of Lydia Ruth Rinehart, a mental incompetent, filed a complaint for a declaratory judgment to determine her interest in certain United States Savings Bonds registered in the names of “Harry H. Rinehart or Mrs. Lydia Ruth Rinehart.” The bonds are in a safe deposit box of the bank, maintained under a joint access contract which permits access to the box only by the two of them. The defendant, Harry H. Rinehart, is the husband of the incompetent. Defendant counterclaims for an adjudication that his wife’s estate is…