Rees

This is an appeal from a judgment in an action to set aside certain deeds on the ground that as to one it was not delivered and as to the others that they were procured by undue influence.

Mary L. Rees was the third wife of Lewis Rees. They were married October 2, 1907. Lewis Rees died March 2, 1920, at the age of eighty years. At the time of his death he left surviving him six children by a former marriage. His widow, Mary L. Rees, had one daughter living, issue of a former marriage. She had no children by Lewis Rees. On the third day of September, 1919, Lewis Rees made and acknowledged a deed of gift to Mary L. Bees, his wife, of twelve parcels of real property situated in Los Angeles County. On the same day, with the knowledge of his wife, Lewis Bees deposited this deed with his attorney, Joseph Smith, with instructions to hold it until his death and then to deliver the same to Mary L. Bees. On September 17, 1919, Lewis Bees made eight other deeds of gift, conveying the same property described in the deed of September 3d. Two of these deeds conveyed to his wife six parcels of said real property, and were delivered directly to her on the day the deeds bear date. The other six…