Alger v. North End Savings Bank
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, to recover a deposit in the defendant bank by the administrator with the will annexed of George C. Trumbull. Achsie J. Wood intervened as a claimant of the fund, under the Pub. Sts. c. 116, § 31. At the trial in the Superior Court, without a jury, before Mason, J., it appeared in evidence that Trumbull, who was treasurer of the defendant bank, in his lifetime made a deposit of $1,000 in the bank in the name of “ Geo.
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Contract, to recover a deposit in the defendant bank by the administrator with the will annexed of George C. Trumbull. Achsie J. Wood intervened as a claimant of the fund, under the Pub. Sts. c. 116, § 31. At the trial in the Superior Court, without a jury, before Mason, J., it appeared in evidence that Trumbull, who was treasurer of the defendant bank, in his lifetime made a deposit of $1,000 in the bank in the name of “ Geo. C. Trumbull, trustee for Achsie J. Wood”; that the claimant, who had been a housekeeper for Trumbull and his wife for eleven years before his death, contended that the…
1Opinion of the CourtDevens, J.
This is an action of contract for one thousand dollars deposited by George C. Trumbull, the plaintiff’s testator, with the defendant bank, Achsie J. Wood intervening as claimant under the Pub. Sts. c. 116, § 81. The judge, before whom the cause was tried without a jury, found for the claimant, and has reported it for the determination of this court, on the question whether the evidence is sufficient in law to sustain this finding.
This sum of money, which was Trumbull’s own, was deposited by him in the defendant bank, of which he was treasurer, in his own name, as trustee for Achsie J. Wood.…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Gerrish v. New Bedford Institution for SavingsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1880
- Sherman v. New Bedford Five Cents Savings BankMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1885
- Scott v. Berkshire County Savings BankMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1885
- Heywood v. StilesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1878
- Nutt v. MorseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1886
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- Scrivens v. North Easton Savings BankMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1896
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