Keeler

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the defendant in an action instituted by the plain tiff against the said defendant, as .executrix of the estate of B. M. Baird, deceased, to establish a claim against said estate.

The facts out of which said claim arose may be briefly summarized as follows: One Alfred Baird was for many years a resident of Fresno County, where he had amassed a considerable amount of property, chiefly in the form of real estate. Several years before his death, which occurred in 1914, he undertook to make a division of certain of his lands between his two children, Florence Gail Keeler, the plaintiff in this action, and B. M. Baird, her brother. In his effort to accomplish this purpose he caused several deeds to be made and placed in escrow, to be delivered at his death. In the deed to plaintiff there was included certain land which he afterward determined to convey to his son, B. M. Baird, and he therefore requested the plaintiff to execute a deed back to him of said particular piece of land. She complied with this request by executing a quitclaim deed on September 24, 1907, conveying the land in question to her father, who on the same day conveyed the…