Nat. City Bk. of Evansville, Etc. v. Bledsoe

This case involves the question of what happens to the title to real estate held by husband and wife as tenants by the entirety, when one tenant murders the other tenant, and thereupon commits suicide. 1

This is the second appeal of this case, the same having previously been reversed for the failure of the complaint to state which spouse survived the other. 2

In the case before us, appellant-personal representative of the wife’s estate (hereinafter referred to as appellant), brought proceedings in the Vanderburgh Probate Court to sell real estate to pay debts and made appellee-personal…