Dzierski Estate

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that “[i]t is the general rule in Pennsylvania that the burden of proving that a transfer of property [] was not a gift rests on the party so asserting[], and that the burden of proof is met only by the production of evidence of a clear, strong or compelling nature.”
• confidential relationship existed between father suffering from senility and daughter with whom he resided
• “where a sole owner of a bank account converts the account into a joint one owned by himself and another, as evidenced by a duly signed signature card, the transaction is prima facie one of an inter vivos gift”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).