231 Mo. App. 515 - Dickson v. Dickson’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. ““[t]he question of a change of possession must be considered in connection with the facts in the case. ... It is no doubt true in respect to the property in general there was no open and visible change of possession. But how could there have been? The donor and donee were husband and wife, living together at a public hotel. Must she separate from him in order to be competent to receive from him a gift? If he gives her a picture or an article of furniture, must she procure it to be kept by someone else instead of placing it in her own apartment? ... No doubt the circumstances of the relation, and the facility with which frauds may be accomplished under the pretense of sales or gifts between husband and wife ought to be carefully weighed in determining whether or not a gift has been made, but when all are considered the one question and the only question is, whether the wife has established her right by a fair preponderance of the evidence; if she has, no court has any business to require more.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Duvall v. Henke