Cranston v. Winters

VOGEL, Justice.

This case involves competing claims of title to real estate in the city of Minot. It is alleged by the appellants, the residuary legatees and devisees of Syvilla Ballantyne, hereinafter described as Syvilla’s sisters, that they are the owners of the property. They claim their title arises because Syvilla, as the surviving joint tenant of the property, acquired the interest of the other joint tenant, her husband, upon his death, and she still held the fee title at her death, at which time it passed to them under the residuary clause of her will.

The appellees are the eight…