Supreme Court of New Jersey

West Jersey Title and Guaranty Company, a Corporation of the State of New Jersey, Plaintiff-Respondent, V…

May 26, 195827 N.J. 144

Summary

The New Jersey Supreme Court reversed the lower court's judgment that treated the parties' property settlement as a tenancy in common and remanded for further proceedings, holding that the decree nisi created a joint tenancy with right of survivorship that could not be defeated by the failure to execute a deed.