Severn v. Ruhde

WOOD (W. J.), J.

Pheba Ann Cassey died on April 11, 1941, at the age of 87 years, leaving a will dated March 31, 1941, in which she gave all of her property to her four children in equal shares. She had given a deed to a parcel of real estate to her daughter, Bea Ann Ruhde. This deed bore the date of August 12, 1938, and was acknowledged on February 15, 1939. She gave a joint tenancy deed dated March 18, 1941, covering the same property to her son, George Vernon Cassey, in which he was named as joint tenant with herself. This deed was recorded on the day of its date. In this action the…