SUGG, Justice, for the Court:
This appeal involves the question of whether a certificate of deposit payable to the order of two persons in the alternative created a joint account with the right of survivorship. On April 6, 1973 the Mechanics Bank of Water Valley, Mississippi issued a certificate of deposit in the amount of $14,000 payable as follows:
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