Court Opinion

ID: 9695735
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 18:28:20.756245+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:20:15.859370
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*111ROBERTS, Justice,
dissenting.
I dissent, and would affirm the Chancellor’s decree.
In 1969, appellant and her late husband exercised an option to purchase real property under a lease agreement with appellee Lloyd H. Miller. At the time the option was exercised, Mr. Miller had in his possession a deed to the property, signed by Everett McDonald and his wife, with the grantee’s name in blank. In 1973, Mr. Miller and his wife, Mary V. Miller, received a deed to the property, in tenancy by the entireties, from the Mc-Donalds.
In this action for specific performance, the Chancellor decreed specific performance of the agreement to sell the property, subject to the intestate share of Mrs. Miller.
If Mr. Miller acquired title to the property by virtue of the deed in blank, then appellant is entitled to specific performance. Since Mrs. Miller did not sign the lease agreement, however, any conveyance would still be subject to her intestate rights.1
If, on the other hand, Mr. Miller did not acquire any title to the property until the 1973 deed to him and his wife, as tenants by the entireties, Mrs. Miller has a far greater interest in the property.2 Since Mrs. Miller has not appealed from the Chancellor’s decree, however, she is entitled only to her intestate rights, as decreed by the Chancellor.
Thus, I see no need to remand to the Chancellor to determine whether Mr. Miller had title at the time the option to purchase was exercised, for I would affirm the Chancellor’s decree whether or not Mr. Miller had title at that time.
JONES, C. J., joins in this dissenting opinion.

. See 20 Pa.C.S.A. § 2105(a) (1975).

. If Mr. and Mrs. Miller had title as tenants by the entireties, her interest would include the right to succeed to the entire estate if her husband predeceased her. See Del Borrello v. Lauletta, 455 Pa. 350, 317 A.2d 254 (1974).