GROUT v. SICKELS

No. 21-0556.

985 N.W.2d 144 (2023)

Richard GROUT AS TRUSTEE OF the HELEN SCHARDEIN 2018 REVOCABLE TRUST, Appellee, v. Dan R. SICKELS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed January 27, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David J. Hellstern , (argued) and J. Mason Bump , (until withdrawal) of Sullivan & Ward, P.C., West Des Moines, for appellant.

Douglas D. Daggett , (argued) of Douglas D. Daggett, P.C., Creston, for appellee.

Mansfield, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which all participating justices joined. May, J., took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.


I. Introduction.

"The property by what it is should go, not by the title." William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well act II, sc. 3, l. 140-41. Today's case tests that proposition. It is a case about one form of property ownership, a joint tenancy with right of survivorship. In the spring of 2014, a woman...

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