Sand v. Sand

STANLEY, Commissioner.

This action to quiet title is determinable by a decision whether an instrument in the *235form of a deed shall be construed as intending to pass title to the property presently or posthumously. A preliminary question is whether the court should have permitted introduction of parol evidence of the circumstances and conditions surrounding the execution of the instrument.

The instrument is a printed commercial form of a deed with the blanks filled by a typewriter. It was executed by Mrs. Anna Sand to her two sons, Louis and Max Sand, with the right of survivorship. The maker’s…