233 So. 2d 527 - Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “The third instrument, or paper writing, executed by Vernard Droke and Dixie Droke, styled "Revocable Trust Agreement-Droke Family Trust," was never lodged with the Clerk of the Chancery Court of DeSoto County, Mississippi to be recorded as required by Section 91-9-1, Mississippi Code, Annotated. The so-called Trust instrument contained no acknowledgment of delivery, and, hence, was not entitled to record, from which it inevitably follows that the attempted trust never had any effect.”

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