Fries v. Kracklauer

The plaintiffs below, respondents here, claiming only through Elizabeth Fries, one of the grantees of the deed set forth above, contended below, and again here, that the deed was to the grantees as tenants in common and that the word “jointly” appearing in the first paragraph is and was of no importance, or, in any event, that under the testimony that was received of the scrivener who *550drew the conveyance and of others as to statements made to them by the grantor, the fact was that she intended to convey to the two daughters as tenants in common and not as joint tenants.

The appellant contends…