Elizabeth Chichester v. Posey Gene Cook

Justice KETCHUM:

This action arose from a dispute between a brother and two sisters concerning the authenticity of a power of attorney for the parties’ father and the validity of two deeds. Pursuant to the power of attorney, the brother, Gene Cook, conveyed two tracts of their father’s land in Wyoming County to himself. He later leased the land to Toney’s Fork Land, LLC.

Gene Cook’s two sisters, Elizabeth Chi-chester and Katherine Lambson, are challenging the authenticity of the power of attorney and the conveyance by Gene Cook to himself.

On March 19, 2013, the Circuit Court of Wyoming County…