Gideon v. Gideon

*333The opinion of the court was delivered by

West, J.:

Malinda C. Gideon.executed eight deeds covering eighty acres of land each to six of her daughters and two tracts of forty acres each to her two sons, Oliver and Peter. She left these deeds with her attorney with this writing:

“Eight deeds to my children of all my real estate have been this day executed by me and turned over and placed in the possession of W. T. McBride of Wellington, Kansas, to be by him turned over to the children whose names appear as grantees in the deeds respectively. The delivery of the deeds to Mr. McBride is for the said…