Funkhouser v. Fowler

The husband, during coverture, made a deed to his wife for land, with general covenants of warranty. She afterwards reconveyed this land to him, but her privy examination was not taken, nor the certificate made, in the manner and as required by law. Both have died, and the present controversy is between the heirs of the husband and the heirs of the wife as to the ownership of the land; that is, whether it became the property of the husband by the imperfect deed of the wife to him, and descended to his heirs, or whether it remained in the wife, notwithstanding the deed, and at her death…