State v. Roberts

The opinion of the court was delivered by

William J. Brennan, Jr., J.

In this escheat action we certified on our own motion the appeal of the Township of Middletown to the Appellate Division from a judgment of the Superior Court, Chancery Division, adverse to the township’s claim that it is entitled to the money which the State seeks to escheat.

The money is on deposit in a savings account in the administrator’s name, and is the surplus of the personal property of the estate of Emily M. Radford, a township resident, who died intestate on September 16, 1944 leaving no husband and no known kindred…