Mares v. Morris

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE ADESKO

delivered the opinion of the court:

This appeal arises from the denial of a petition to recover assets. At issue are numerous savings accounts which were established by the petitioner-appellant’s decedent with the respondent-appellee, Frances L. Morris, named as joint tenant. The petitioner, as administrator of the estate of decedent, Cyrill Cemy, sought to have the court declare these accounts to be assets of the estate and to have the surviving joint tenant, Frances L. Morris, deliver the funds in these accounts to the estate of the decedent. The trial court…