Case Name: Katherine Deering v. Society for Savings
Court: Cuyahoga Circuit Court
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1907-01-21
Citations: 33 Ohio C.C. Dec. 644
Docket Number: 
Parties: Katherine Deering v. Society for Savings.
Judges: Winch, Henry and Marvin, JJ.
Reporter: Ohio Circuit Court Decisions
Volume: 33
Pages: 644–645

Head Matter:
GIFTS
[Cuyahoga (8th) Circuit Court,
January 21, 1907.]
Winch, Henry and Marvin, JJ.
Katherine Deering v. Society for Savings.
Intention of Donor to Make Gift a Necessary Element.
Proving the delivery of a fund which was reduced to possession, without proving an intention to make a gift, does not establish a gift.
Error.
Affirmed no opinion, Deering v. Society for Savings, 79 Ohio St. 467.

Opinion:
WINCH, J.
Plaintiff in her petition claimed the fund involved in this case as a gift.
Such being the case, it was incumbent upon her to prove all the essential elements of a gift.
She proved a delivery of the fund, which was reduced to her possession before the donor's death. She failed to prove an intention to make a gift. The mere possession of the funds by the donee raises no presumption that the possession was acquired as a gift. Thornton, Gifts, par. 321.
When no consideration exists for the transfer of property, in the absence of explanatory circumstances, a resulting trust arises in favor of the grantor or transferor. Roberts v. Remy, 56 Ohio St. 249 [46 N. E. 1066].
The judgment is affirmed.
Henry and Marvin, JJ.