CAREY v. JACKSON

No. 5123.

603 P.2d 868 (1979)

Genevieve B. CAREY, Appellant (Plaintiff), v. James K. JACKSON, Appellee (Defendant).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

Rehearing Denied January 3, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George S. Andrews, W. Perry Dray, and Rocklon L. Edmonds, Cheyenne, signed the brief. Andrews and Dray appeared in oral argument on behalf of the appellant.

Bernard O. Phelan and Rodger McDaniel (Legal Intern), Cheyenne, signed the brief and Phelan appeared in oral argument on behalf of the appellee.

Before RAPER, C.J., McCLINTOCK, THOMAS, ROSE, and ROONEY, JJ.


RAPER, Chief Justice.

The central issue presented by this appeal is whether written gift agreements purporting to transfer certain items of personal property from mother to daughter are sufficient in themselves to constitute a valid gift inter vivos where there was no manual delivery of the items of personal property. Upon a special verdict of the jury which found that Bernice Jackson did not give the items listed in the gift agreements to her daughter, Genevieve...

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