HOWARD v. FARMERS BANK


268 A.2d 870 (1970)

Mildred HOWARD, Defendant Below, Appellant, v. FARMERS BANK of the State of Delaware, a corporation of the State of Delaware, Plaintiff Below, Appellee, and Farmers Bank of the State of Delaware, Executor of the Estate of Sadie Cooper Rust, Defendant Below, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

July 16, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clifford B. Hearn, Jr., and Victor F. Battaglia, of Biggs & Battaglia, and A. James Gallo, Wilmington, for appellant.

Samuel Handloff, Wilmington, and Franklin S. Eyster, II, of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, for appellee.

WOLCOTT, C. J., and CAREY and HERRMANN, JJ., sitting.


WOLCOTT, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from the entry of summary judgment in favor of an executor by order of the Chancellor in a suit filed as an action of interpleader by the Farmers Bank. The facts are that prior to July 8, 1967, one Sadie Cooper Rust had a savings account in the Farmers Bank with a balance in excess of $8,000. On that day she directed the Bank to add the name of Mildred Howard, the appellant herein...

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