Hancock v. Savings Bank of Balto.

The question involved in this case is whether a paper, signed by Lula M. Duker, while in the Johns Hopkins Hospital, was sufficient to create a trust over her bank account in the Savings Bank of Baltimore. The paper was executed on July 31, 1950, and Mrs. Duker died on August 5, 1950. The appellant, who was the beneficiary of the attempted trust, filed a bill of complaint in the Circuit Court of Baltimore City against the Bank, and against the administrator of Mrs. Duker’s estate, to have the court declare the account in the Savings Bank impressed with a trust in her favor, and to direct the…