46 Iowa 248 | Iowa | 1877
The finding of the referee that the deeds were never delivered to H. Crandall is abundantly sustained by the testimony. The evidence shows that at the time of the execution of the deeds Ehoda and JEL Crandall were aged and very infirm. The deeds were executed to the end that H. Crandall might have some means of support if he should survive his wife, and they were retained in the possession of Ehoda Crandall, in her private bureau drawer, with the understanding that if she survived her husband she was to destroy them. At the time of the death of her husband she was very infirm in body and feeble in mind, and she survived her hus
On both appeals the judgment is
Aeeirmbd.