Barnes v. Mance

Undercofler, Chief Justice.

Wiley L. Manee expressly created by deed a joint survivorship in 144 acres of land in himself and his son, Gerald, on August 28,1972. Manee died intestate in 1977. Gerald and his two sisters, Patricia Barnes and Peggy Sue McGhee, the only heirs at law, executed under a No Administration Necessary, an “Agreement Settling Claims of Heirs to Estate of Wiley L. Manee” and divided the estate’s personal property among them. In this suit, the two sisters claim a one-third interest each in the real property conveyed to Gerald in the 1972 deed under an implied trust theory.…