Isom v. Bledsoe’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “"The case before us is controlled by our decision in Bringhurst v. Hardin , 387 So.2d 186 (Ala. 1980). In Bringhurst , as in the present case, a 1964 deed conveyed land to a married couple in 'joint tenancy with right of survivorship.' The couple divorced in 1969, and the former wife took action to force a severance of the joint tenancy. This Court held in Bringhurst that our decision in Nunn v. Keith , 289 Ala. 518 , 268 So.2d 792 (1972), applies retroactively to deeds executed before our decision in Bernhard v. Bernhard , 278 Ala. 240 , 177 So.2d 565 (1965). This Court in Nunn had reversed the Bernhard decision by holding that Alabama would recognize the common law of joint tenancy, with its right of survivorship, and with its destructibility of the right of survivorship by unilateral act."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Nettles v. Matthews