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Author: {"author": "KINKADE, J.:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 416
    HIXSON v. SNYDER, Executor
    Ohio Appeals, 6th Dist., Huron County
    No. 162.
    Decided April 30, 1923
    This opinion has not been published except in Abstract
    EPECUTORS — (1) Right to withdraw funds iron joint account.
    Attorneys — A. M. Beattie, for Hixson; Rowley ¿ Carpenter, for Snyder.
   KINKADE, J.:

Epitomized Opinion

Snyder filed an executor’s account in the Probat Court of Huron County, and Hixson filed certain ex ceptions thereto. The account showed the with drawal of certain moneys in various banks which hat been in the decedent’s name and his wife’s jointly The evidence also showed that the money belongei to decedent, but that the accounts were taken out ii this fashion for convenience. As the Common Plea court held that the money was the decedent’s money-error was prosecuted. In sustaining Judge Me Knight of the lower court, the Court of Appeals held

1. Where it appears that the money belonged tc decedent’s estate, although the account was main tained as a joint account, the executor is -entitled tc withdraw the money.