Anderson v. Lord

The plaintiff concedes that the evidence of intent to make a gift is sufficient, but contends that there was no valid delivery. Reliance is placed upon the authority of Bean v. Bean, 71 N. H. 538, in which the court says (543): “. . . in both classes of gifts [causa mortis and inter vivos] there must be ... an actual delivery of the subject-matter at the time of the declaration [of gifts] or accompanying it so nearly as to be one transaction, and that an ‘after-acquired possession, or a previous and continuing possession of the donee, though by authority of the donor, is insufficient’ ...” If…