Redmon v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. ““* * * the Chancellor took the view that our decision in the case of Harmon v. Thompson, 223 Ark. 10 , 263 S. W. 2d 903 , precluded him from holding the deed conveyed an estate by the entirety to Hill and his wife. In this we think the Chancellor was in error. In two important respects the facts in the Harmon case are easily distinguishable from the facts in the case under consideration. One, in the cited case it is clear, because of the erasures and changes, that the word ‘his’ was deliberately and purposely used instead of the word ‘ their ’. Such is not the case here. Two, in the cited case the all important fact of intent is not definitely shown, as it is in this case. It may be also added in this connection that there is substantial evidence that Mrs. Hill furnished a large part of the money to pay the debt owing Meyer. This fact substantiates the direct evidence on the matter of intent. The decision and the reasoning in the Harmon case is sound, but it is based entirely upon the peculiar facts of that case. In the case of Jackson v. Lady, 140 Ark. 512 , at page 523, 216 S. W. 505 , at page 508, this court said: ‘In the construction of a deed like any other contract it is the duty of the court to ascertain, if possible, the intention of the parties, especially that of the grantor.’ To the same effect is the decision in Carter Oil Co. v. Weil, 209 Ark. 653 , 192 S. W. 2d 215, 217 , where it was stated that: ‘All deeds are to he construed favorably, and as near the intenti”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Baker v. Westmoreland · Smart v. Gunnels