Scott v. Mofford

OPINION

By MATTHEWS, J.

This is an action to recover possession of real estate. The jury returned a verdict fbr the plaintiff upon which the judgment was rendered from which this appeal was taken.

The plaintiff relied upon evidence that the decedent — her father — had in his lifetime executed and delivered a deed, which transferred the absolute title to her, that the deed had not been recorded, and that upon the request of her father she had allowed him to have possession of the deed, but with no intention of re-transferring the title to him, and that he had not returned the deed to her. and she…