Webb v. Blake

1. The delivery of personal property by a parent into the ex-, elusive possession of a child living separate from the parent creates a presumption of a .gift to the child. But this presumption may be rebutted by evidence of an actual contract of lending, or circumstances from which such a contract may be inferred. Civil Code (1910), § 4150.

2. This was an action of trover in the municipal court of Atlanta for the recovery of a diamond delivered by the plaintiff into the possession of her son in the year 1916, when he resided with her in Massachusetts, lie located in Georgia in 1918, bringing…