Court Opinion

ID: 3254912
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 16:24:57.377591+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:53:48.900713
License: Public Domain

Bill to quiet title. The sole question in this case involves the delivery of the trust deed exhibited to the bill of complaint. It is, of course, well settled that if a deed was never delivered to the grantee, it will not operate as a conveyance. Loring v. Grummon, 176 Ala. 236, 57 So. 818; Gulf Red Cedar Co. v. Crenshaw, 169 Ala. 606, 607, 53 So. 812.
The true test of delivery is whether or not the grantor intended to reserve to himself the locus poenitentiæ. Griswold v. Griswold, 148 Ala. 239, 241, 42 So. 554, *Page 100
121 Am.St.Rep. 64; Powell v. Powell, 217 Ala. 287, 116 So. 139.
The only evidence in this case negatives a delivery actual or constructive of the trust deed in question, and the decree of the circuit court is affirmed.
Affirmed.
GARDNER, BOULDIN, and FOSTER, JJ., concur.