In re the Estate of Curran

Wingate, S.

The issue in this discovery proceeding relates to the rights of a surviving wife, Mary G. Curran, in certain savings bank accounts which were opened by the decedent with his own money and which at the time of his death stood to the credit of “ Michael Curran or Mary G. Curran, Pay to Either or Survivor.” The accounts were opened on or about August 19,1931, in that form, and the books delivered to the decedent. The usual inference resulting from such a delivery, of understanding by the depositor of the nature of the deposit, does not arise in the present case, as he was blind.

At the…