Dodson v. Severs

Bird, V. C.

The testimony in this case shows that the relation of parent and child existed between the grantor and grantee. There is an *306utter absence of any proof that the grantee was ever emancipated. It is very manifest that the relation, which existed from the time the child was one year of age until she became twenty-one, continued unbroken till her death. This being the case, the question is, was her grandfather or grantor under any obligations to the grandchild, his grantee, at the time of the execution of the deed; and if not, then was the deed, which passed the title to the grantee,…