Magnuson v. Diekmann

OPINION

FORSBERG, Judge. *

The district court granted summary judgment to respondents, the surviving children of a deceased father, reforming the deed by which the deceased father had left his residential property so that the children inherited as joint tenants rather than as tenants in common. Appellant, the estate of a son who predeceased the father, opposes that summary judgment. Because no genuine issue of material fact and no error of law precludes the judgment, we affirm.

FACTS

In 1991, Vernon Magnuson filed a quitclaim deed (the 1991 deed) preserving for himself a life interest in his…