Minonk State Bank v. Grassman

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a joint tenancy may be severed without using the legal fiction of a straw man
• \[a]llowing one party to destroy the joint tenancy by executing a deed from himself to himself merely dispenses with an outmoded charade which is of dubious legal and practical significance\
• “[allowing one party to destroy the joint tenancy by executing a deed from himself to himself merely dispenses with an outmoded charade which is of dubious legal and practical significance”
• \it is obvious that courts have been inclined to allow severance [of joint tenancies] in any variety of ways once intent to sever has been demonstrated\
• “it is obvious that courts have been inclined to allow severance [of joint tenancies] in any variety of ways once intent to sever has been demonstrated”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).