Austin v. Fendall

District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Austin v. Fendall

9 D.C. 362

District of Columbia Court of Appeals·Decided September 15, 1875·No. No. 4008·Published

Opinion

Where a conveyance of real estate is properly executed and delivered to the grantee, and is afterward handed to the grantor to he put on record, hut the latter dies without recording it, leaving a will in which he makes specific devises of all his property, but makes no mention of the real estate claimed by the grantee: Held, that it is a complete and valid deed, although it be found after the death of the grantor, by his executors, among his other papers.

STATEMENT OE THE CASE.

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Where a conveyance of real estate is properly executed and delivered to the grantee, and is afterward handed to the grantor to he put on record, hut the latter dies without recording it, leaving a will in which he makes specific devises of all his property, but makes no mention of the real estate claimed by the grantee: Held, that it is a complete and valid deed, although it be found after the death of the grantor, by his executors, among his other papers.

STATEMENT OE THE CASE.

Austin v. Fendall, 9 D.C. 362 (D.C. 1875).

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