Lynch v. Lynch
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the chancery court of Hinds county. Hon. Lamar F. Easterling, Chancellor. Suit by Fred Lynch, Sr., against Chas. A. Lynch. From an adverse decree, complainant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from the chancery court of Hinds county. Hon. Lamar F. Easterling, Chancellor. Suit by Fred Lynch, Sr., against Chas. A. Lynch. From an adverse decree, complainant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. The grantor in the purported deed of gift has testified fully to all other facts touching the execution, the recording of it, and of his withholding the delivery and the reasons why that he did not deliver it, and stated that he did not intend to deliver the deed unless he should find himself in a very precarious condition of health, and believe that his death…
1Opinion of the CourtCook, J.
The appellant, the father of the appellee, exhibited his bill of complaint in the chancery court of the First district of Hinds county, praying for the cancellation of a certain deed of gift heretofore signed and acknowledged by complainant and recorded in the office of the clerk of the chancery court.
*760This deed, by its terms, conveys certain described lands to the appellee and reserves to the grantor a life estate in the lands.
The sole question presented by this record is whether or not the deed from appellant to appellee was ever delivered to appellee. There is no evidence tending to show…
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