Alexander Ex Rel. Estate of Smith v. Bowens

SUMMERS, Chief Justice.

This appeal involves the question of ownership of a bank account held in the names of an aunt and her niece under a written agreement between them'that the account was jointly owned by them as joint tenants with right of survivorship.

Appellant Callie Alexander, as adminis-tratrix of the estate of her sister Geneva Fowler Smith (deceased), sued Naomi Bow-ens and Clarence Reed, a niece and- nephew of the deceased, for the return of the proceeds of a savings account at the Grove State Bank in Dallas, Texas, totaling $47,-281.65, claiming such account was the property of…