Sadofski v. Williams

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Hall, J.

This litigation arises out of an unfortunate quarrel among the children of the decedent Katherine Baron over the amounts of two savings accounts and two certificates of deposit. These amounts, all belonging originally to Mrs. Baron, stood just prior to her death, intestate, in her name and that of appellant Janet B. Williams, her oldest child, as “joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common.” Literally minutes before Mrs. Baron’s demise, the amounts on deposit, totalling some $45,000 and representing all of her…