Ransom v. Ransom

This case presents the question whether a deed made directly from husband to wife in the year 1854 was a valid conveyance of the legal title to the lands therein described. The plaintiffs in error maintain that the common-law disability which precluded such a conveyance without the inter*329vention of a trustee was still in force at that date, while the defendant in error insists that it had been previously removed by the constitution of the state and by statutes; and she relies upon Burdeno v. Amperse, 14 Mich., 91, and Tong v. Marvin, 15 Mich., 60, as furnishing support to this position.

Tong v.…