Bonner v. Arnold

*261CAMPBELL, J.

This case presents the question whether a decedent’s estate is liable for contribution to the surviving tenant toward a debt secured by real property which passes to the joint owner and obligor by right of survivorship. We hold that it is not.

Ruth Arnold and her son, John Arnold, purchased real property together, holding it as joint tenants with a right of survivorship.1 At the time of Ruth Arnold’s death the two, as co-owners and coobligors, owed approximately $40,000, evidently secured by trust deeds, on the purchase price.

No will was found. John Arnold was appointed the…