Hackett v. Hackett

Under review is the trial court’s decree refusing to cancel a deceased mother’s deed to her adult son and his wife. The appellants are decedent’s other surviving children — two sons and two daughters — one of whom appears also as an administrator of her estate. Error is urged in adjudging that the mother’s deed to the grantee-son was delivered to him during her lifetime and did operate to pass title to him inter vivos. Complaint is also made of the trial court’s finding that the mother did not lack mental capacity to make the disputed conveyance when she executed it.

This was a suit to cancel…