Franklin v. Franklin

(after stating the facts). The chancellor was right, for reasons considered at length in Porter v. Landis, 329 Mich 76, in holding that the deed created an entirety tenancy and that its designation of the grantees as husband and wife is not under these pleadings open to contradiction.

The principal cases on which defendants rely are readily distinguishable. Wright v. Kaynor, 150 Mich 7, presented the instance of a deed which did not describe or designate the 2 grantees as husband and wife. In McNitt v. McNitt, 230 Mich 303, no written instrument was produced or involved; the claim being one of…