Court Opinion

ID: 9704531
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 00:38:50.303379+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:22:03.354399
License: Public Domain

SHEPARD, Chief Justice,
dissenting.
The president of a small town bank responded to the deathbed request of a customer dying of cancer by allowing the customer's daughter to come by and pick up certificates he undisputably owned. He sent his daughter, previously a stranger to the safe deposit box and the certificates. At that moment, the certificates had no value to the daughter. They did have value at that moment to the wife, who lost her expectancy only because her husband changed his mind about who should receive the proceeds. The bank's good samaritanship was not the cause of this change of heart and thus should not be punished.
DeBRULER, J., joins.