Parker v. Lamb

George Rose Smith, Justice.

This suit to cancel two deeds is between brother and sister: the appellant Robert J. Parker, Jr., and the appellee Mary Louise Lamb. The single question is whether the chancellor was right in holding that the deeds, executed by the parties’ parents, were ineffective for want of delivery. We agree with the chancellor.

In 1971 the elder Parkers went to a trusted friend, who was an abstracter, for advice about the disposition of their-property upon their death. The abstracter had an attorney prepare the two deeds in question, one conveying the city homeplace to the…