Man Fights Bank For His 'Lifetime' Free Checking

Shorebreak
  |     |   4,039 posts since 2010

My parents had a free safe deposit box "for life" at a Great Western Bank in California. They passed away and the bank let me have the free deposit box as long as I maintained my checking account with Great Western. Great Western Bank was  bought-out by Home Savings, which honored the free deposit box agreement also. Home Savings was then bought-out by Washington Mutual, which also honored the original agreement.  I moved out of state and closed the deposit box. A couple of years later I closed my checking account with Washington Mutual before they failed and were taken over by Chase.  I wonder if Chase would have honored the original agreement? Probably not.



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