Weisinger v. Cock

Citations

• 67 Miss. 511

Syllabus

<p>Deed. Delivering after death of grantor. Inoperative.</p> <p>An instrument signed and acknowledged as a deed and intrusted to an agent for safe-keeping, witli directions not to deliver it, unless the'grantor should die before returning from a certain journey, is inoperative, though delivered after the death of the grantor while on such journey, in pursuance of his intention to vest the title to the property in the grantee in the event of his death. Under these facts there is no present delivery, absolute or conditional.</p>