Legal Opinion

Bailey's Estate

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided April 29, 1925No. Appeal 131PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Linn, J.,

The point for decision is the ownership of money jointly deposited in two banks by brother and sister, to be withdrawn by either,- — by “James R. Bailey or Margaret J. Bailey. ’ ’ The deposits were made in 1908'. James R. Bailey died, intestate, in 1922. His' administrators (Margaret J. Bailey was one of them) filed their account, which did not include any part of these bank deposits — aggregating some seven thousand dollars — ¡as assets of the estate; next-of-kin filed exceptions to the account, alleging ownership by decedent and desiring administration thereof. The court…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Strause's EstateSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1920

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Mader v. StemlerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1935
  2. Reap v. Wyoming Valley Trust Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1930
  3. Zellner's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1934
  4. In Re Estate of I.L. CristSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1932
  5. Glessner v. Security-Peoples Trust Co.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 1944

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