Olney Trust Bank v. Pitts

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that husband severed joint tenancy by conveying his interest in property to bank, leaving bank and wife each with a half interest
• stating that when the person who is bound to pay is the same person who is entitled to receive, “there is an extinguishment of rights, such that debtor and creditor become the same person and there can be no right to put in execution”
• stating “the doctrine of merger provides that when the same person who is bound to pay is also entitled to receive, there is an extinguishment of rights” but observing that the Code of Civil Procedure (Ill.Rev.Stat.1987, ch. 110, par. 15–1401

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).