RIGGS v. SNELL

No. 41,706

186 Kan. 355 (1960)

350 P.2d 54

JAMES RIGGS, Appellee, v. W.M. SNELL, Appellant. (DIANNA RIGGS; ROBERT M. DOLL; E.E. GILES; EDWARD E. GILES; HAROLD F. YOUNG; and, if any of the above named defendants is deceased, the respective unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors and assigns thereof; and the unknown heirs, executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors and assigns of Georgia Elma Snell, deceased, Appellees.)

Supreme Court of Kansas.

Opinion filed March 5, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Etling, of Kinsley, argued the cause, and W.N. Beezley, of Kinsley, was with him on the brief for the appellant.

Russell L. Strobel, of Larned, argued the cause, and Roscoe E. Peterson, of Larned, was with him on the brief for the appellee.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

PRICE, J.:

This was an action to quiet title to an interest in real estate, for partition of the land, and for an accounting of the rents and profits.

The appeal is by one of the defendants from an order overruling his demurrer to the petition.

The only question in the case is whether a deed to 320 acres of land to a husband and wife created in them a joint tenancy with right of survivorship —...

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