Gibson v. Boling

If it is correct, as appellee argues and the majority agrees, that our law requires the negation of a gift under the circumstances of this case and, by so doing, deprives two sons of a gift intended by their father giving it instead to a virtual stranger, then that law should be reexamined and redefined.

The majority opinion concedes that there is no doubt but that the father’s intention was to make a gift to his sons. He had the certificate issued in their names with his own and then actually delivered it to one of them with instructions that it was to be theirs. The requirements of the law…