Legal Opinion
In Re Kappler Estate
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided December 20, 1983No. 69000PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
418 Mich. 237 (1983)
341 N.W.2d 113
In re KAPPLER ESTATE
BALDWIN
v.
SLONE
Docket No. 69000.
Supreme Court of Michigan.
Decided December 20, 1983.
Philip C. Baldwin for the estate.
2Per curiam
The issue presented in this case concerns the effect of a purported conveyance to two persons as husband and wife where they were not in fact married. We conclude that the effect of this conveyance was to create a tenancy in common.
I
The issue arises in the probate court's administration of the estate of Violet Kappler, one of the grantees of the conveyance in question. The issue was submitted to the probate judge on…
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