People's Bank of Denton v. Turner

The appellant bank, having a sum of money on deposit in its savings department in the names of “Annie E. Turner or Florence E. Thompson, or survivor,” claimed a right to set off against its liability on the deposit a note of Florence E. Thompson’s in a larger amount. The claim was not successfully maintained in a suit against the bank by Miss Turner, and rulings of the trial court considered unfavorable to it form the subject of this appeal.

Miss Turner, in the year 1927, withdrew money from a savings account she had in the Bank of Ridgely in the same county, received for it a draft to her…