Weber v. Nedin

I agree that the former mandate in this case should be reversed, but for quite a different reason than that stated in the opinion.

As so fully appears, a conveyance at common law made to two persons vested in them an estate in joint tenancy, but *49because joint tenancies have not met with the same popularity in this country that they enjoyed in England, for reasons that will be found well stated in Overheiser v. Lackey, 207 N. Y. 229, 100 N. E. 738, many of the states of this country, including our own, have abolished joint tenancies, except where specifically declared and except in certain…