Brown v. Resort Developments

The sole issue on appeal in this chancery proceeding is whether the trial court correctly ruled that a grantor possessed the mental capacity to execute a valid deed.

On September 19, 1986, Edith Hatchel, the grantor, a widow 72 years of age, executed a deed to appellee Resort Developments, the grantee, conveying four parcels of real estate located in the City of Virginia Beach for a total sales price of $70,000. On November 10, 1986, the court below appointed Ardelle Grimes, a niece of the grantor, as guardian for the person and estate of Hatchel. The court found, following an October 17, 1986…