Munday v. Munday

STEPHENSON, Justice.

The trial court held that a joint will prevailed over a survivorship deed. The Court of Appeals reversed. We granted discretionary review and reverse the Court of Appeals.

H.E. and Nancy Munday owned a farm as joint tenants with right of survivorship. In 1960 they executed joint wills which devised the estates of each to the survivor, and upon the survivor's death the farm was devised to a son, James Munday.

H.E. Munday died in 1965, and his estate, including the farm, went to Nancy Munday. In 1978 Nancy Munday executed a deed conveying the farm to her four children equally.…