Colson v. Baker
New York County Courts
Motion by a purchaser, at a foreclosure sale, to be relieved of his purchase. ^
1Opinion of the CourtCbane, J.
The question to be determined on this motion is whether a person seized in fee of an estate can, by a direct grant, deed the property to another and himself in joint tenancy, instead of tenancy, in common, without the intervention of a third party.
The facts in this case are these: Elizabeth G-. Baker and Mary Ann Baker, in 1897, being the owners in fee as tenants in common of the premises in question, made and *408executed to one Johanna Baker and the above-mentioned Mary Ann Baker a deed purporting to convey the premises to the said grantees as joint tenants, the deed specifying that the said…
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