Hicklin v. DeVore

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Robb, J.:

This was an appeal from the final judgment of the trial court refusing to set aside a deed and holding that there was a good delivery of the deed.

The pleadings in the case consisted of a petition, answer, and reply, which put delivery of the deed in question, along with other matters not involved in this appeal.

Briefly stated, the salient facts were that Mary F. Beauchamp, hereinafter referred to as the grantor, owned a certain quarter section of land in Anderson county; she was a widow and had no living children; while the record is silent as…