Atwood v. Atwood

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hoyt, C. J.

The fact upon which the rights of the parties in this action depends is as to whether or not a certain deed found among the papers of the grantor after his death had been so delivered in his life time that it became operative, and conveyed the title to the land therein described to the grantees therein named.

The cause was tried before a referee who made findings of fact upon which he founded a conclusion of law to the effect that the deed had been so delivered. Exceptions having been taken to the findings of the referee, the superior court…