Payne v. Hallgarth

The plaintiffs, Mary E. Payne, Sarah Gunnell, Ann Thornton, Joseph Hallgarth, and William Hallgarth, and the defendant Charles Hallgarth, are the brothers *431and sisters and only heirs of Sibrit Hallgrath, who died intestate in Union County, Oregon, on November 21, 1893. On the twenty-first of October preceding his demise he executed and duly acknowledged a certain deed purporting to convey the premises in dispute to the defendant Jane Hallgath, and the only question involved in this suit is whether there was a delivery of such deed to the grantee to take effect presently, for it is not…