Hall v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.

Duckworth, Justice.

When the case was considered by this court before, there was nothing in the petition as amended to indicate that the trust deed had never been delivered. The last amendment, however, shows that the deed in question was never delivered by the grantor, in that it is alleged that the grantor kept both the will and the trust deed after they were executed until his death, when the two instruments thus safely kept and preserved by him were found and thereafter recorded. The first question which this court must now decide is whether or not the document relied upon as a deed was…