Washington Save Deposit & Trust Co. v. Lietzow

Citations

• 59 Wash. 281
• 109 P. 1021

Syllabus

<p>Death — Evidence—Sufficiency. The death of a person is sufficiently established by evidence that it was publicly announced in the daily papers of the city, and an undertaker testified that he had embalmed and shipped a body coming into his custody as that of the deceased.</p> <p>Mortgages — Absolute Deed — Evidence—Sufficiency. The fact that a deed, absolute in form, was intended as a mortgage must be established by clear, satisfactory and convincing evidence, and is not shown where the grantor was indebted to the grantee, and conveyed to a trustee who had full power to sell for the amount of the debt, which was done, and no note or written evidence of the indebtedness was given.</p>