Vaughn v. Perkins

PARK, Judge.

By a joint will executed with his wife, A. G. “Gid” Pepper bequeathed his entire estate to his wife, Lissie Perkins Pepper, for her lifetime. He also appointed Lissie executrix of his estate. After Gid’s death, Lis-sie treated a joint checking account and certain certificates of deposit as her own property rather than property passing to her as life tenant under the will. Following Lissie’s death, the plaintiffs-appellants, re-maindermen of Gid’s estate under the will, asserted a claim against the administrator of Lissie’s estate for the checking account and certificates of…