Garlits v. Dickson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burch, J.:

In form the action was one for partition of real estate commenced by six children against their widowed mother. For plaintiffs to prevail it was necessary to avoid a deed of land made by the father of plaintiffs to their mother, and recorded shortly after grantor’s death, which occurred in November, 1915. The deed was of record, and the mother was in full possession and enjoyment of the land for almost fourteen years before the suit was commenced. The stated ground of the suit was that the deed had not been de*284livered in the grantor’s…