McKnight v. Reed

FISHER, Chief Justice.

Appellant’s seventeenth assignment of error is, in part, well taken. Some of the evidence of some of the witnesses named in this assignment seeks to establish and prove the declarations of William Reed after the execution of the deeds under which the plaintiffs claim. It was proper to permit the witnesses to testify as to what was said and done by William Reed, prior to and at the time of executing the deeds to his three granddaughters, Florence, Ida and Bettie, children of W. C. Reed by his first wife, but what was said and done by him subsequent to the execution of…