Dougherty v. Moore
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Baltimore City. The Court below (Dennis, J.,) passed a decree adjudging that certain money on deposit in the Eutaw Savings-Bank of Baltimore, belonged to the estate of Lawrence McDonald, deceased, and a further decree adjudging that certain other |money on deposit in the Savings Bank of Baltimore, belonged also to the estate of said McDonald.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Baltimore City. The Court below (Dennis, J.,) passed a decree adjudging that certain money on deposit in the Eutaw Savings-Bank of Baltimore, belonged to the estate of Lawrence McDonald, deceased, and a further decree adjudging that certain other |money on deposit in the Savings Bank of Baltimore, belonged also to the estate of said McDonald. Erom these decrees the present appeal was taken; the appellants, widows, being children of Sarah McDonald by a former husband. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
This is a controversy in regard to the title to two funds, or sums of money, held on deposit by the Eutaw Savings Bank of Baltimore and the Savings Bank of Baltimore, and claimed respectively by the administrator of the wife and the administrator of the husband.
McDonald, the husband, opened an account in the Eutaw Savings Bank in 1864, and running down to 1887, when he died. The account was opened in his own name, and so continued till the 19th of February, 1868, when the name of his wife was added; and thereafter the entry in the pass book of the Bank and in the ledger of the Bank read,
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