Camp v. Camp

COMPTON, J.',

delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this appeal, we must construe a deed to determine the title acquired by a mother and son to real property conveyed to them “as tenants in common with the right of survivorship as at common law.”

The issue arose in the following manner, as revealed by the pleadings and a summary statement of the facts prepared by the trial judge. In 1955, Robert Camp, Jr., unmarried, and appellee Tincy Camp, his mother, agreed to purchase a house and lot located in the City of Richmond. Tincy Camp consulted a Richmond attorney who, at her request, drew the deed…