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Real Property-Quiet Title-Joint Tenancy
Staff Report//April 29, 2026//
Defendant appealed the trial court’s judgment declaring plaintiff the sole owner of their family’s farm, arguing that the farm had been owned by plaintiff and his two brothers in a joint tenancy with right of survivorship that was later converted into a tenancy in common, with one share passed to defendant upon the death of his father, one of the three brothers, via a beneficiary deed.
Where the recording of the beneficiary deed was insufficient to sever the joint tenancy, no interest had passed to defendant and thus plaintiff became the sole owner where he was the surviving joint tenant.
Judgment is affirmed.
Sielert v. Sielert (MLW No. 84683/Case No. SD39233 – 14 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Goodman, J.) Appealed from circuit court, Stoddard County, Scherer, J. (Joseph Cullen Blanton Jr., Sikeston and Mark Blanton, Sikeston for appellant) (James R. Tweedy, Bloomfield for respondent)
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