Ratcliff's Guardian v. Ratcliff

Opinion of the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner—

Affirming.

The issue is whether there was a delivery of a deed by Boscoe Batcliff, deceased, to his wife, the appellee, Jennie Batcliff. She sued her daughter and the children of a deceased son to quiet title to a certain tract of land, the cloud thereon being the claim of nondelivery of her deed.

The surface of a larger body of land had been conveyed to Roscoe Ratcliff and his brother Dan Ratcliff, in 1908. In 1913 a deed of partition was executed, and the tract involved in this suit was allotted to Roscoe. That deed was not recorded until after his…