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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Joseph Meehan, as Executor of Eliza Meehan, Deceased, Appellant, v. The Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank et al., Respondents.
    
      Banks and banking — savings banks — title — action to determine ownership of savings bank account.
    
    
      Meehan v. Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank, 213 App. Div. 807, affirmed.
    (Argued October 22, 1925;
    decided November 24, 1925.)
    • Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered March 27, 1925, affirming a judgment in favor of defendant entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term directing a dismissal of the complaint and directing that defendant savings bank pay a sum on deposit to defendant Quirk. The action was brought to determine the ownership of the account which stood in the name of “ Eliza Meehan for niece Lizzie Quirk.” Plaintiff, the son and executor of Eliza Meehan, deceased, claimed the fund as part of the assets of her estate.
    
      T. Louis A. Britt for appellant.
    
      John Caldwell Myers for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: His cock, Ch. J., Cardozo, Pound, McLaughlin, Andrews and Lehman, JJ.‘ Absent: Crane, J.