McKay v. Palmer

This is a quiet title action. Plaintiffs appeal as of right from an order granting summary disposition in favor of defendants. We affirm.

The real estate at issue, commercial property located on Woodward Avenue in Detroit, was originally owned by Harold Palmer, a Massachusetts resident. Plaintiff Joseph McKay was Palmer’s Massachusetts attorney. In July, 1975, eighty- eight-year-old Palmer executed in Massachusetts a quitclaim deed conveying the property to himself and plaintiff as joint tenants with rights of survivorship and not as tenants in common. In November, 1975, defendants Najor…