Sundin v. Klein

Appealing from an adverse ruling and espousing the common law maxim that no person should be permitted to profit by his own wrong, the executrices of the estate of a murdered wife ask us to reverse the judgment appealed from and to order that a constructive trust be impressed upon land held by the wife and her slayer-husband as tenants by the entirety. This request arises against the following background:

By deed dated December 17, 1971, Marcia Lane Cross and Walter Dounton Cross, her husband, acquired as tenants by the entirety with survivorship one acre of land on Powellton Avenue in the…