Corkins v. Corkins

This is an action to set aside a deed. The principal ground relied upon is that it was not delivered to the grantee during the lifetime of the grantor. Ancillary relief, also, was requested.

The deed complained of, identified and sometime hereafter described as exhibit 1, was executed shortly before the marriage of the grantor, John C. Corkins. At this time he had 4 children by a prior marriage. One of them, the eldest son, 17 years of age'at the time,'was the grantee of the deed, in ■Question.' After the grantor’s death, some 20 years later, Ms widow, plaintiff herein, found the deed in his…