Kniebbe v. Wade

The Court of Appeals, after a trial de novo, made 14 separate findings of fact and 5 conclusions of law on May 13, 1953.

Its tenth finding of fact reads as follows:

“10. That the reason and purpose Homer T. Wade and Edith M. Wade on September 2, 1939 and February 9, 1943 each executed mutual deeds to each other for their interests in said four parcels of real estate was to protect each other against any interference *297from outsiders in the event of the death of either of them and for the reason that each wanted the other to have all the property after the death of the other.”

In its conclusions of…