Case Name: John V. D. H. Bradt, Jr., as Executor, etc., of John V. D. H. Bradt, Sr., Deceased, Appellant, v. John H. Bradt, Respondent, Impleaded with The Home Savings Bank of the City of Albany, N. Y.
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1911-03-08
Citations: 143 A.D. 863
Docket Number: 
Parties: John V. D. H. Bradt, Jr., as Executor, etc., of John V. D. H. Bradt, Sr., Deceased, Appellant, v. John H. Bradt, Respondent, Impleaded with The Home Savings Bank of the City of Albany, N. Y.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 143
Pages: 863–866

Head Matter:
John V. D. H. Bradt, Jr., as Executor, etc., of John V. D. H. Bradt, Sr., Deceased, Appellant, v. John H. Bradt, Respondent, Impleaded with The Home Savings Bank of the City of Albany, N. Y.
Third Department,
March 8, 1911.
Grift—savings bank deposit — decedent’s estate — evidence not establishing gift.
Action by an executor to determine the right to a savings bank deposit made by the testator and standing in his own name “or” that of another person, his uncle, “or the survivor of them.” Evidence examined, and held, not to show a completed gift.
Houghton, J., dissented, with opinion.
Appeal by the plain tiff, John Y. D. H. Bradt, Jr., as executor, etc., from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, John H. Bradt, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Albany on the SOth day of April, 1910, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Albany Trial Term, the jury having been discharged.
William I. Visscher, for the appellant.
Marcus T. Hun and William A. Glenn, for the respondent.

Opinion:
Pee Cubiam :
The evidence does not show a completed gift. (Sullivan v. Sullivan, 161 N. Y. 554; Turnbull v. Turnbull, 118 App. Div. 449; Kelly v. Beers, 194 N. Y. 49.)
All concurred, except Houghton, J., dissenting, in opinion.