Grace v. Virginia Trust Co.

This suit was brought by the appellant, Mazie V. Grace, against the administrators of Robert J. Bond, to-*60set up a parol gift inter vivos from Bond to her of certain ehoses in action.

Bond was a widower about sixty-three years old, his wife having died in 1894, and Mrs. Grace, who had been divorced from her husband and had two children, was about twenty-five years old at the time of the alleged gift. When Mrs. Bond died she left surviving a son about two weeks old. The father provided for the rearing and support of his son and .there seemed to exist normal relations of affection between father…