FECTEAU v. TRUST CO.

No. 36198.

171 Ohio St. 121 (1960)

FECTEAU, APPELLEE, v. THE CLEVELAND TRUST CO., APPELLEE; LARKIN, APPELLANT; BLASER, ADMX., APPELLEE.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided June 8, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Apple & Apple, for appellee Dorothy Joyce Fecteau.

Messrs. Stark, Jett, Biechele & Hopf, for appellee Cleveland Trust Company.

Messrs. Davies, Eshner, Johnson & Miller and Mr. Francis B. Douglass, for appellant, June A. Larkin, and appellee Alice Blaser, administratrix.


ZIMMERMAN, J.

Beginning with the case of Cleveland Trust Co. v. Scobie, Admr., 114 Ohio St. 241, 151 N. E., 373, 48 A. L. R., 182, this court has decided a number of controversies involving the ownership of joint and survivorship bank accounts. Frequently the disputes have arisen upon the death of one of the joint depositors and have involved the principle that, where one has created an account with his own money and has then made another a joint owner...

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