Kitchen v. Sawyer

OPINION

STEPHENS, Justice (Retired).

Joy Williams Kitchen appeals from a Declaratory Judgment action which sought a determination that a contract for a certain certificate of deposit created a joint tenancy with right of survivorship account, whereby the deposit would be owned by Kitchen after the death of the joint deposi tor. The trial court held that the deposit was not a joint tenancy with right of sur-vivorship, and thus the account was not owned by Kitchen as the surviving joint depositor.

In two points of error, Kitchen contends that the trial court erred (1) in holding that the contract…