Slowey v. Hunt

The action is in partition. The shares of the parties depend upon the decision as to whether a deed was valid. The deed was made by the owner of the property to two of her daughters. It was not delivered to them but, instead, was delivered to a third person with directions that he should deliver it to the grantees upon the death of the grantor. Before the grantor died, one of the grantees had died. Upon the grantor’s death, the custodian of the deed delivered it to the surviving grantee. The delivery of the deed by the grantor put the control of it out of her possession. It was absolute in…