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ESTATE OF GULLEDGE

Nos. 95-PR-229, 95-PR-283 and 95-PR-284.

673 A.2d 1278 (1996)

ESTATE OF Clayton GULLEDGE, Deborah Walker, et al., Appellants. ESTATE OF Johnsie B. WALKER, Deborah Walker, et al., Appellants. ESTATE OF Bernis GULLEDGE, Deborah Walker, et al., Appellants.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided April 4, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard I. Chaifetz, Washington, DC, for appellants.

Safia S. Kadir, Germantown, MD, for appellees.

Before TERRY, SCHWELB, and FARRELL, Associate Judges.

SCHWELB, Associate Judge:

The issue in these related appeals is whether the unilateral transfer by one of two joint tenants of his interest to a third party, without the consent of the other joint tenant, converts the joint tenancy into a tenancy in common. We hold that it does.

I.

The dispositive facts are undisputed. Clayton and Margie Gulledge owned a house at 532 Somerset Place, N.W. (the Somerset property...

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