Jones v. Crane
Jones v. Crane
Opinion of the Court
The petitioner is clearly entitled to partition of the real estate which was devised by Susannah Jones to James M. Dean and Fanny Crane. That devise was to them as tenants in common; it not manifestly appearing, from its tenor, that it was intended to create an estate in joint tenancy. Rev. Sts. c. 59, § 11. By reason of the death of James M. Dean, in the lifetime of the devisor, the devise to him of an undivided moiety lapsed, became intestate property, and descended to the devisor’s heirs at law, to wit, to her brother, Dean Jones, the petitioner, and to Rachel Dean and Fanny Crane, children of her deceased sister; these three being her only heirs at law. Rev. Sts. c. 61, § 1, and c. 62, § 24. Hooper v. Hooper, 9 Cush. 122.
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- Dean Jones v. Jonathan Crane & others
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