Baker v. Hall
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Champaign county; the Hon. Solon Philbrick, Judge, presiding. It appears from the pleadings, proofs and master’s report found in the record in this case, that for some years prior to the 16th day of May, 1885, Martha Ann Hall was the owner in fee simple of one hundred and seventy eight acres of agricultural lands located in Champaign county, Illinois, upon which she, her husband, Lyman Hall, and their daughter Martha Zurretta Hall, resided as…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Champaign county; the Hon. Solon Philbrick, Judge, presiding. It appears from the pleadings, proofs and master’s report found in the record in this case, that for some years prior to the 16th day of May, 1885, Martha Ann Hall was the owner in fee simple of one hundred and seventy eight acres of agricultural lands located in Champaign county, Illinois, upon which she, her husband, Lyman Hall, and their daughter Martha Zurretta Hall, resided as their home; that on that day Martha Ann Hall, and her husband, Lyman Hall, executed and acknowledged a deed conveying…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hand
The only question involved upon this appeal is whether the deed executed on May 16, 1885, by _ Martha Ann Hall and husband to Martha Zurretta Hall, was in the lifetime of Martha Ann Hall delivered to the grantee so as to vest the title to the premises described therein in said grantee.
It is clear from the evidence in this record that said conveyance was intended by the grantors as a voluntary settlement of said premises upon their daughter Martha Zurretta Hall. In case of a voluntary settlement it is well settled by the adjudicated cases that the law presumes much more in favor of the…
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