HALE, J.
When the Dayton branch of the Seattle-First National Bank, as a convenience to an elderly, infirm depositor, permitted him to make an oral transfer of his separate savings account into his wife's control, it engendered a number of legal problems. The law governing oral directions to a bank resolves some of them; others have already been definitively determined by findings of fact.
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