Adams v. Adams
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. The ease was thus: Adams, a government clerk, in Washington, owning a house and lot there, on the 13th of August, 1861, executed, with his wife, a deed of the premises to one Appleton, in fee, as trustee for the wife.
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Appeal from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. The ease was thus: Adams, a government clerk, in Washington, owning a house and lot there, on the 13th of August, 1861, executed, with his wife, a deed of the premises to one Appleton, in fee, as trustee for the wife. The deed by appropriate words in preesenii conveyed, so far as its terms were concerned, the property for the sole and separate use of the wife for life, with power to lease and to take the rents for her own use, as if she was a feme sole; the trustee having power, on request of the wife, to sell aud convey the premises…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hunt
The first question in this case is whether there was a de- • livery of the deed of August 13th, 1861. If not a formal ceremonious delivery, was there a transaction which, between such parties and for such purposes as exist in the present case, the law deems to be sufficient to create a title? The bill avers that the deed was delivered by the parties and put on record in the way which it states.
The answer is responsive to the allegations in the plaintiff’s bill that the deed, after being signed, sealed, and delivered, was recorded at the request of the defendant, Adams, and at his expense. '
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