Court Opinion

ID: 9542343
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:33:18.344782+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:07:46.078870
License: Public Domain

WINANS, Justice
(concurring specially).
The deed with which we are concerned created title in the property to the grantees “as Joint Tenants and not as Tenants in common and with full Right of Survivorship”. I am of the opinion the court correctly disposes of the only problem before us. However, after disposing of that problem the opinion then takes on the question of an estate by entireties. We have no such problem. It was*not presented to us, it was not argued and it is unnecessary for us to consider in arriving at the decision we do. I believe that a consideration of a nonexistent problem may be considered dictum. Having set up a fact situation that does not exist, the opinion goes on to dispose of it by an analysis of the law which considers estates by entirety, by joint tenancy and tenancy in common. An analysis of the cases cited in the Court’s *358opinion will disclose entirely different fact situations from the one before us. The contentions made in the various cases cited are different from ours and such contentions are based upon entirely different “granting clauses” in the instrument under consideration in those cases. I, therefore, do not join in that part of the Court’s opinion which has set up an “estate by entireties”, only to knock it down. I would leave that entirely open for the Court to decide when it is presented to us for decision. For dictum of my own, I, too, think the Attorney General’s opinion, 1920 A.G.R. 558, is a well-reasoned opinion.