Glenn v. Bank of California, N. A.

This appeal presents again the question “whether the balance in a joint savings account became the property of the surviving joint depositor or constituted an asset of the estate of the other joint depositor.” Roehr v. Pittman, 256 Or 193, 194, 472 P2d 278 (1970). The circuit court concluded that the savings bank account here involved passed to defendant Jack H. Stipe pursuant to the will of Alice A. Lauterman, deceased, and did not belong to claimant, Mary H. Glenn, who, at the time of Mrs. Lauterman’s death, was, with Mrs. Lauterman, a cosignatory with right of *61survivorship of that joint…