MATTER OF ESTATE OF ATKINS

No. 53519.

422 So.2d 754 (1982)

In the MATTER OF the ESTATE of Roy C. ATKINS, Sr. Deceased. George William ATKINS, Executor v. Edna SARTIN.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

December 1, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stennett, Wilkinson & Ward, Derryl W. Peden, Jackson, for appellant.

William R. Barnett, P. Zeb Jones, Jackson, for appellee.

Before PATTERSON, C.J., and BOWLING and PRATHER, JJ.


BOWLING, Justice, for the Court:

This appeal involves a question of first impression that should be of interest to the bench and bar and particularly the banking institutions. The primary question is the authority of a conservator to withdraw funds from a joint bank account of the ward prior to the ward's death.

Roy C. Atkins, Sr., deceased, and Edna Sartin, appellee herein, for a number of years prior to Atkins...

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