FIELD v. FIDELITY UNION TRUST CO.

No. 7055.

108 F.2d 521 (1939)

FIELD v. FIDELITY UNION TRUST CO. et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

December 20, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell C. MacFall, of Ridgewood, N. J., for appellant.

Francis F. Welsh and Hood, Lafferty & Campbell, all of Newark, N. J. (Wallace R. Chandler, Jr., of Newark, N. J., of counsel), for defendants-appellees, Fidelity Union Trust Co and Minton H. Twinch, executors of Edith M. Peck, deceased.

Before BIDDLE, JONES, and BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judges.


BIDDLE, Circuit Judge.

This appeal involves the construction of the New Jersey Act validating tentative trusts with respect to saving bank deposits; and the extent to which our court must or should follow two decisions of the Court of Chancery of New Jersey, not a court of final resort, holding the Act void.

Edith M. Peck on January 2, 1935, transferred a savings account with United States Savings Bank of Newark to "Edith M. Peck, in trust for Ethel Adelaide...

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