Thomas v. Johnson

Jean Thomas, the plaintiff, appeals from a judgment which denied her complaint to quiet title to real estate in herself as a surviving joint tenant, and which confirmed the joint tenancy. The sole issue is whether a severance of the joint tenancy was effected by the provisions of a decree of divorce entered in the suit of plaintiff against her now deceased husband.

Jean Thomas and MitcheH W. Thomas, now deceased, were divorced on March 31, 1964. The husband did not appear and contest the divorce proceedings, but his counsel was present at the prove-up. At the time of the divorce the parties…