Harrison v. Totten
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiffs, Rosalind Harrison, an infant, by C. Godfrey Patterson, her guardian ad litem, and another, from a ¡judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 15th-day of December, 1899, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial before the court without a jury at the New York Trial Term dismissing the complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
O’Brien, J.:
The action was brought by Rosalind Harrison, an infant, through her guardian, to recover possession of certain savings bank pass books. The moneys represented by the pass books were deposited by one Serena D. Turell, who was the grandaunt of the plaintiff, and who died without leaving husband or children. It appears that in 1896, 1897 and 1898 she opened accounts and made deposits of money in several different savings banks and received the pass books *179here in question, in all of which, except one, there was expressed upon the face of the pass book that the deposit was “ in trust…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Decker v. Union Dime Savings InstitutionAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
- Lee v. KennedyAppellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1898
3Cited by5 opinions
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- In re the Estate of LevineNew York Surrogate's Court · 1935
- Meislahn v. MeislahnAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1900
- Meislahn v. MeislahnAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1900
- Miller v. Seamen's Bank for SavingsNew York Supreme Court · 1901