Waters v. Waters

Jenkins, Justice.

On the one issue made by the defendant’s pleadings as to whether his deed to the plaintiff had been delivered, the verdict was authorized by the evidence, not ■ only under the presumption of delivery from the recording of the instrument (Stinson v. Daniel, 193 Ga. 844, 849, 20 S. E. 2d, 257, and cit.; Bracewell v. Morton, 192 Ga. 396 (2, 3), 15 S. E. 2d, 496), but by testimony of the wife that the husband gave the deed to her, that she kept it in her trunk and in a wardrobe drawer until their separation, and that she did not take it with her because of her haste in getting…