Mcguire v. Davis

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

Mary J. Culbertson, an elderly unmarried woman, was the owner of 180 acres of land in Allen county. On November 20, 1909, she executed a warranty deed, in the usual form, without exception or reservation, purporting to convey 160 acres of it to her two nieces, Maggie McGuire, and Rachel Davis, sisters. The intention had been to include the entire property, and to remedy the oversight a second deed was made, of like purport, for the other twenty acres. A few days later the grantor caused the deeds to be recorded, and during the next month the…