Case Name: Katherine Deering v. The Society for Savings
Court: Cuyahoga County Circuit Court
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1907-01-21
Citations: 22 Ohio C.C. (n.s.) 406
Docket Number: 
Parties: Katherine Deering v. The Society for Savings.
Judges: Winch, J.; Marvin, J., and Henry, J., concur.
Reporter: Ohio Circuit Court Reports (new series)
Volume: 22
Pages: 406–407

Head Matter:
FAILURE TO ESTABLISH A GIFT.
Circuit Court of Cuyahoga County.
Katherine Deering v. The Society for Savings.
Decided, January 21, 1907.
Gifts — Intention of Donor to Make a 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.
Winch, J.; Marvin, J., and Henry, J., concur.
Affirmed without opinion, Deering v. Society for Savings, 79 Ohio State, 467.

Opinion:
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 on Gifts, paragraph 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 O. S., 249.
The judgment is affirmed.