Stone v. Daily’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 22 state decisions

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1. ““Upon the foregoing facts it is plain that if the delivery which must be relied on in order to make the deed effective was the final delivery to the bank under the instructions indorsed upon the envelope, there was no such absolute delivery as must exist in order to give the instrument life. The instructions on the envelope determine the character of the delivery, and make it one conditional upon Daily surviving his wife. If he did not survive her, the deed was to be returned to her and the purpose for which this provision for a return to the grantor was made was very evidently that the déed should not take effect in the event of the grantee dying before the grantor.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 41 Cal. App. 2d 566 - Rothney v. Rothney

2. ““We, George L. Daily and Bebecca J. Daily, husband and wife, do hereby deposit this sealed envelope and its contents in the Bank of Lake, at Lakeport, Cal., and we and each of us do hereby instruct the said Bank of Lake to hold the said envelope and its contents so long as we may live; and during such time not to deliver the same to either of us nor to any other person, nor suffer the seals to be broken; upon the death of either of us to deliver the same to the survivor on demand. Dated, January 11, 1900.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 41 Cal. App. 2d 566 - Rothney v. Rothney