Margarite v. Ewald

JACOBS, Judge:

We are asked on this appeal to review a determination by the common pleas court of Philadelphia County that the plaintiff-appellee has a one-sixth interest in property originally deeded to his mother and stepfather and another person. For the reasons hereinafter set forth, we reverse.

The real estate in question was conveyed by deed dated January 16, 1967, to “John Ewald and Mary B. Ewald his wife and Joseph Ewald ... as tenants in common with right of survivorship.” The appellee is the son of Mary B. Ewald by her first marriage. Mary B. Ewald died intestate on November 8, 1973,…