Freligh v. Billmeyer

On June 20, 1928, Ellen Bopp Billmeyer executed a deed to land owned by her, including the tract in controversy, naming as grantees her grandsons Ellis Billmeyer Shepard and Gordon Kenneth Shepard. The deed was delivered in escrow to Clare Shepard, father of the grantees, with instructions to place of record when the grantor died. The grantor reserved possession during her life and continued in occupancy. The deed was never placed of record.

On April 16, 1934, the same grantor, Ellen Bopp Billmeyer, deeded the tract in controversy and other land to her daughter, Mabel Billmeyer Piekworth. On…