73 So. 45 | Ala. | 1916
Complainant (appellee) claimed that a certain savings deposit which stood to the credit of Rafaele Verturi on the books of the First National Bank of Birmingham had been equitably assigned to him by said Rafaele during his lifetime, and filed this bill against appellant, as Rafaele’s administratrix, to recover a judgment for the amount of the deposit. Appellant has collected the money from the bank, and the sole question is whether she should be held to account for it to complainant. Therefore the bank is not made a party. The brief for appellant discusses the law of gifts causa mortis; but appellee does not claim the fund by way of a gift of any sort, causa mortis or inter vivos. By virtue of his exchange of money for an interest-bearing credit with the bank of the same amount he claims as an equitable assignee for value, and while the bill is not as clear on the point as it might be, upon fair interpretation we think it intends that the amount of the decedent’s original deposit, without augmentation of credits for interest, constituted and remained the full amount of his credit'with the bank at the time of the assignment counted upon.
The court below overruled a demurrer to the amended bill, and its decree will be affirmed.
Affirmed.