Ellis v. Jones

Mabel A. Ellis was defeated in a suit to recover of her stepfather, George W. Jones, possession of a house. She *517brings error. She relied upon a deed from her mother who died a few days after its execution.

The court, on the authority of Smith v. Smith, 22 Colo. 480, 46 Pac. 128, 34 L. R. A. 49, 55 Am. St. Rep. 142, held the deed invalid because it was made for the purpose of depriving the defendant of his inheritance. The proof in this case, however, does not bring it within the scope of that decision the ground of which was that the deed there in question was merely colorable,—that is,…