Almond v. McAllister

The contest in this case is between the estate of Georgia A. Thompson and her granddaughter, Nellie H. McAlister, concerning the ownership of a joint savings bank account in the usual trust form. The appellee contends, and the chancellor found, that the account passed to her by survivorship under the declaration of trust, and that the testimony supports and does not rebut the decedent’s intention to create the trust.

Mrs. Thompson, after her husband’s death in 1912, was employed as a domestic for a private family until 1922. For some years she lived with a daughter, Mrs. Clara Bull, then with…