First National Bank in Sioux City v. Curran

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This case involves the validity of transfers of bank deposits into joint tenancy by Margaret Crosby to her confidante, Mrs. James Curran.

Margaret Crosby was born in 1871 in Nebraska and died in 1969 in Sioux City, Iowa. She never married and left no close relatives. She was an intelligent person of strong will; one witness testified that she was “a very genteel Christian woman, by the standards of today a little old-fashioned, she didn’t have many wants, she was a charitable woman, cheerful and very appreciative.”

By 1961, when she was 90, Miss Crosby’s eyesight was almost…