Robinson v. Gould
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Delaware District Court. Deed : delivery : proof of : evidence, etc. — The defendant, Libbie E. Gould, is the widow (since intermarried with Gould, her present husband) of one Anthony Eobinson, deceased, who was a brother of the plaintiff.
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Appeal from, Delaware District Court. Deed : delivery : proof of : evidence, etc. — The defendant, Libbie E. Gould, is the widow (since intermarried with Gould, her present husband) of one Anthony Eobinson, deceased, who was a brother of the plaintiff. In his petition, filed in 1866, the plaintiff alleges that, on the 15th day of November, 1856, he made unto his brother, Anthony Eobinson, now deceased and afterward husband of defendant, a warranty deed to the forty acres of land in controversy, in Delaware county, Iowa, and filed the same for record, and that at the time, he contemplated…
1Opinion of the Court
Dillon, Ch. J.
Deed: delivery; presumption arising from record. — The plaintiff made the deed to his brother Anthony in 1856, and caused the same to be recorded. His brother did not die until nearly nine years thereafter, and this suit was not commenced until after the brother’s death and the death of his only child. The plaintiff, in his petition, claims that this deed was made in view of a contemplated sale of the land to his brother, which the latter failed to complete, and that never having received any considera*91tion for the land, the plaintiff altered his mind and preferred not to part…
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