Estate of Redden Ex Rel. Morley v. Redden

JACKSON, Judge.

Barbara Jean Redden (“defendant”) appeals from the trial court’s order, entered 27 June 2005, granting partial summary judgment in favor of the Estate of Monroe M. Redden, Jr. (“plaintiff”), and ordering defendant to pay plaintiff the sum of one-hundred-fifty thousand dollars ($150,000.00) and costs.

Record evidence establishes the following: Monroe M. Redden Jr. (“decedent”) maintained various bank accounts at First Union National Bank, including money market account number 1010044300784 (“Account 784”) that was held only in decedent’s name. In June 2000, decedent executed a…