ALEXANDER v. BOWENS

No. 1312.

595 S.W.2d 176 (1980)

Callie ALEXANDER for the Estate of Geneva Fowler Smith, Deceased, Appellant, v. Naomi BOWENS and Clarence Reed.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Tyler.

January 31, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James P. Hopkins, Dallas, for appellant.

Howard V. Tygrett, Jr., Tygrett, Walker & Lamb, Dallas, for appellees.


SUMMERS, Chief Justice.

This appeal involves the question of ownership of a bank account held in the names of an aunt and her niece under a written agreement between them that the account was jointly owned by them as joint tenants with right of survivorship.

Appellant Callie Alexander, as administratrix of the estate of her sister Geneva Fowler Smith (deceased), sued Naomi Bowens and Clarence Reed, a niece and nephew of the deceased, for the return of the...

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