Burt v. Burt

PRATT, Chief Justice.

The main issue in this case is that of the passing of title by the delivery of a deed. John A. Burt was a polygamist and father of two families. The defendants are the mother and children of his first family; the plaintiffs are the mother and children of the polygamous family. Hereafter we shall speak of the polygamous family as the plaintiff and her children; and the other family as defendant and her children.

Plaintiff and her children instituted this proceeding to set the deed in question aside as void. This was her first cause of action. The second cause of action we…