Woman's Home & Foreign Missionary Society v. Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n

In this action to quiet title to a lot in San Diego the court made findings and entered judgment in favor of the plaintiff and the defendants have appealed on the judgment-roll alone.

On July 17, 1925, Sarah Tenney, being then 80 years of age, executed a grant deed conveying the property in question to the respondent, this deed reserving to the grantor “the free use and occupancy of the said premises as a residence for herself so long as she may live”. This deed was delivered to a third person with instructions to hold the same until the death of the grantor and then deliver it to the…