Cutts v. Najdrowski

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Bodiots, J.

p*Leon Najdrowski, a resident of Jersey City, had a bank account, for many years before his death, in the Williamsburg Savings Bank in New York City. On July 16th, 1932, he caused the account entry — it then amounting to $6,155.96— to be changed so as to read “Leon Najdrowski, Int. for Joseph Najdrowski.” Leon died on February 27th, 1936, and thereafter Joseph closed the account and after paying the funeral expenses deposited the remainder, the sum of $5,500, in a joint account in his name and that of his wife, Augusta, in the Fifth Ward…