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JACKSON v. ESTATE OF GREEN

Docket No. 136423. Calendar No. 3.

771 N.W.2d 675 (2009)

484 Mich. 209

Joan B. JACKSON, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ESTATE OF Ronald GREEN, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 30, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurie S. Longo and Dickinson Wright P.L.L.C., (by John G. Cameron, Jr.), Ann Arbor, for Joan B. Jackson.

Brown Powers, P.L.L.C. (by Bridget Brown Powers and Jennifer J. Schafer), Petoskey, for the estate of Ronald Green.

Opinion

CORRIGAN, J.

We granted leave to appeal to consider whether an action to partition real estate may go forward when the joint tenant who filed the action died before an order of partition entered.1 We would hold that title vested in the surviving joint tenant on the decedent's death because the mere filing of a partition action does not sever a joint tenancy and no order granting partition was entered before the death...

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