Petersen v. Carstensen

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that Iowa Code section 524.806 was primarily “enacted to protect the depository bank rather than to establish ownership of the deposit”
• Iowa Code section 524.806 has the effect of converting the presumption in favor of tenancy in common to a presumption in favor of joint tenancy
• bank deposit creates valid contract between bank and depositor

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).