PLOTNIKOFF v. FINKELSTEIN


105 A.D.2d 10 (1984)

Sophie Plotnikoff, Respondent-Appellant, v. Jeanette Finkelstein, Appellant-Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

December 13, 1984


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan C. Glickenhouse of counsel (Karp & Silver, attorneys), for appellant-respondent.

Mark X. Lynch for respondent-appellant.

KUPFERMAN, J. P., MILONAS and ALEXANDER, JJ., concur with SULLIVAN, J.; ASCH, J., dissents in an opinion.


SULLIVAN, J.

In 1964 plaintiff, then 78 years of age and recently widowed, began to peddle merchandise purchased at discount on the Lower East Side of New York door to door in the Bronx neighborhood in which she lived. Successful from the outset, plaintiff soon began to accumulate substantial sums of money, which she deposited in various accounts opened either jointly in her name with, or in trust for, one of...

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