Cranston v. Winters

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• \[W]e note the fundamental fact that title to joint-tenancy property in this State vests immediately in a surviving joint tenant upon the death of the other joint tenant. It passes to the survivor by right of survivorship and not by the will.\
• “It is basic to our concept of record title that persons with interests in real estate may rely upon the record title without the necessity of checking the title as to subsequent transactions affecting the real estate, in the absence of possession sufficient to constitute adverse possession.”
• “It is basic to our concept of record title that persons with interests in real estate may rely upon the record title without the necessity of checking the title as to subsequent transactions affecting the real estate, in the absence of possession sufficient to constitute adverse possession.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).