Parker v. Kane’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 24 state decisions

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1. ““The first question to be noticed has reference to the original transaction between Dunbar and Montague. The former executed and delivered to the latter a deed of conveyance of the undivided one half of certain lands, now embraced in the limits of the city of Milwaukee; and after the making of this deed, Dunbar purchased from Montague an undivided one-half of the interest in the lands which he had previously conveyed to Montague. The deed from Dunbar to Montague not having been recorded, as the statute upon the subject of conveyances of real estate required, it was agreed between them that this deed should be returned to Dunbar and destroyed, and that a deed of an undivided one fourth of the lands should be executed and delivered by Dunbar to Montague, which was done, and the first deed was accordingly returned and destroyed. “There is no doubt in our minds that the cancellation or destruction of a deed of conveyance of lands by the consent and agreement of the parties to it cannot operate to revest the title in. the grantor. The execution and delivery of a deed of conveyance of these lands, as between the grantor and grantee, vested the estate in the latter; but the voluntary destruction of the instrument by the consent of the parties could not pass the estate back again, because the transmission of title to real estate, at the time of the original transaction, could only be by deed of conveyance in writing. The mere act of destroying the evidence of the title in Montague co”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kempf v. Michelbach