Standiford v. Standiford
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Buchanan Circuit Court. — Non. J. P. Grubb, Judge. (1) The intention of the grantor was clear and unmistakable in delivering the deed to Dick, the depositary for his infant son. The deed was executed and delivered in pursuance of an often expressed design, formed years before, after the maturest deliberation, a,nd after taking legal counsel as the nature and effect of the deed.
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Appeal from Buchanan Circuit Court. — Non. J. P. Grubb, Judge. (1) The intention of the grantor was clear and unmistakable in delivering the deed to Dick, the depositary for his infant son. The deed was executed and delivered in pursuance of an often expressed design, formed years before, after the maturest deliberation, a,nd after taking legal counsel as the nature and effect of the deed. The grantor divested himself of all dominion and control over the conveyance, by the delivery to Dick, and died within a year thereafter, all the time supposing and repeatedly avowing that he had fully and…
1Opinion of the CourtBrace, J.
On the ninth day of January, 1878, Dodson Standiford, deceased, being in feeble health, made a deed to his son, the defendant William Seigel Standiford, then aged about sixteen years, to a tract of land containing one hundred and three acres, situated in Platte county, on which he, with his wife, the plaintiff Amanda, and his said son were then residing, in which his wile did not unite, and delivered it to one Hezekiah Dick. In the following' August, he died, and within twenty days after his death, the said Dick filed the deed in the office of' the recorder of deeds of said county and the…
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