Reed v. Keatley

This case illustrates what happens when incompetent advice is given and the practice of law is undertaken by a layman, the secretary-treasurer of the National Farm Loan Association of Ness City.

In my opinion, the plaintiff (appellee) has not sustained the burden of proof cast upon him in this case to show a valid delivery of the deed in question.

The rule to which this court has adhered in many cases was stated in Young v. McWilliams, 75 Kan. 243, 89 Pac. 12, as follows:

“. . . Where one who has executed a deed retains it in his own possession, with the intention that it shall become operative…