19 Tenn. App. 612 - Ferry v. Bryant’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
March 1959
most recently cited
4 state decisions
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“"(1-3) It is elementary that there can be no gift of personal property inter vivos absent complete and unconditional delivery of the article either directly to the donee or to a trustee to act as agent for the donee. If delivery to a third party is merely for the purpose of delivery to the donee, the gift is not completed until the subject of the gift is actually delivered to the donee, and until that is done the donor may revoke the authority of his agent to make delivery, and resume possession of the article. However, the rule is that where delivery is unconditionally made to a third person to act as agent or trustee for the donee, such delivery completes the gift. To constitute such a case the circumstances must show a full relinquishment of domination over the property to the trustee for the purpose of the trust, so that the trustee shall not be the agent of the donor, but shall act for the donee. Marshall v. Russell, 93 Tenn. 261, 266, 267 , 25 S.W. 1070 ; Chandler v. Roddy, 163 Tenn. 338 , 43 S.W.2d 397 ; Fly v. Woods, 13 Tenn. App. 310 ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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