Turner v. Woodward

The plaintiff’s petition was dismissed on demurrer. It made substantially this case: The plaintiff borrowed of his wife a certain sum of money and secured its payment by deed (absolute in form) to real estate of which he was in possession. He afterwards paid the debt, and his wife destroyed this deed with the intent and under the belief that its destruction revested the plaintiff with title. A short time thereafter the wife conveyed the land to her husband by deed of bargain and sale, with warranty of title. Subsequently to the execution of her deed to the plaintiff the wife executed a deed,…