In Re Estate of Thomann

How courts have described this case

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

• noting a constructive trust is an equitable remedy and may be imposed “because the person holding title to the property would profit by a wrong or would be unjustly enriched if ... permitted to keep the property.”
• explaining a joint tenancy may be severed by one joint tenant
• “In the absence of a statutory definition or an established meaning in the law, words in a statute are given their ordinary and common meaning.”
• “[W]e think the legislature must have intended that one joint tenant’s murder of the other joint tenant severs the joint tenancy and creates a tenancy in common.”
• “[W]e think the legislature must have intended that one joint tenant’s murder of the other joint tenant severs the joint tenancy and creates a tenancy in common.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).