Switzer v. Switzer

This is a suit instituted in December, 1933, to set aside a deed from Cornelia S. Burkholder to Mary Switzer Lincoln, dated December 15, 1924, and recorded on that date, which purported to convey to the grantee valuable real estate located in the city of Harrisonburg, Virginia.

A recital in the deed was to the effect that it not only vested in the grantee the life interest of the grantor but it was a designation of the grantee, by the grantor, as her appointee, to take the fee in the property, under the terms of the will of D. M. Switzer, deceased.

D. M. Switzer died seized and possessed of the…