Court Opinion

ID: 9549684
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 18:23:15.968707+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:20:45.213351
License: Public Domain

HENRIOD, Justice
(dissenting).
I concur in the result but dissent from that portion of the main opinion that endorses the rule of Tangren v. Ingalls, and states that Neill v. Royce and Greener v. Greener laid down a rule to the effect that the contract is to be ignored if “it is shown by clear and convincing evidence that the parties intended otherwise.” They laid down a rule that if one joint depositor is shown to have been inequitable because of fraud and the like, by clear and convincing evidence, the agreement could be vitiated in equity, as is the case, in equity, with any contract. What would the main opinion do with a case where “it is shown by clear and convincing evidence that the parties intended otherwise,” — which “otherwise” was to the effect that, equitable claims aside, the survivor intended the fund to belong to him, but the deceased intended that he should be its owner in toto. In such event, the main opinion would have to run to the written agreement for help, would invoke the parol evidence rule, and would get back to fundamentals.
CALLISTER, J., concurs in the views expressed in the opinion of HENRIOD, J.