BUTLER v. REDDICK

No. 12347.

416 So.2d 332 (1982)

Mary A. BUTLER v. Ruth Daniels REDDICK a/k/a Ruth Daniels Riddick.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 16, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clarence F. Favret, Jr., Favret, Favret, Demarest & Russo, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellant.

Bruno, Bruno & Blouin, Jerry L. Blouin, Frank S. Bruno, New Orleans, for defendant-appellee.

Before REDMANN, C. J., and GARRISON and BYRNES, JJ.


REDMANN, Chief Judge.

The question on this appeal is whether a manual gift is established by proof that the now deceased donor transferred funds from a New York bank to a joint account in a New Orleans bank in the names of himself or defendant1 and that defendant reduced those funds to cash in her possession prior to decedent's death, when defendant's testimony is the only direct proof of donative intent, although certain other circumstances...

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