Case Name: HIXSON v. SNYDER, Executor
Court: Ohio Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1923-04-30
Citations: 1 Ohio Law Abs. 408
Docket Number: No. 162
Parties: HIXSON v. SNYDER, Executor
Judges: 
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 1
Pages: 408–408

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.