Estate of Brant

OPINION OF THE COURT

ROBERTS, Justice.

This is another inheritance tax appeal, consuming judicial time and the litigants’ resources, which might have been avoided had there been adequate explanation of the alternatives to and consequences of a joint tenancy savings account to a depositor who sought merely a convenience account. See Gillespie Estate, 462 Pa. 467, 341 A.2d 471 (1975); Olson Estate, 447 Pa. 483, 291 A.2d 95 (1972); Commonwealth v. Nolan’s Estate, 345 Pa. 98, 26 A.2d 308 (1942); Cochrane’s Estate, 342 Pa. 108, 20 A. 2d 305 (1941).

In 1964 Lois H. Brownback (Depositor and appellee)…