Small v. Small’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““The circumstantial evidence touching the subject of proprietorship of the farm did no more than furnish a basis for conjecture. ' The belief is quite common that a deed delivered before death, but accompanied by some arrangement reserving beneficial use until death, is a better way of disposing of property than by will. The grantees of Bowen Small were his children and grandchildren, and the circumstances that the one who occupied and farmed the place paid rent, and permitted stock to be kept there, were insufficient to warrant the court in making a positive finding of nondelivery.” (p. 322.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Richard v. Leinbach