Williams v. Studstill

Hill, Chief Justice.

From revolutionary times until 1976, the law was that joint tenancy as it existed at common law 1 was abolished in this state. 1777 Const, of Ga., § 51; Ga. L. 1828, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 545; Lowe v. Brooks, 23 Ga. 325 (1857). 2 This case involves an attempt to create a joint tenancy by will in 1970. The trial court held that a joint tenancy was created, but was destroyed by severance. This appeal followed.

Alice C. Studstill died in 1970, possessed of 750 acres of land in Dodge County, Georgia, which she devised as follows: “I give, bequeath and devise that track of land…