Coley v. Walker

MONROE, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment on a petition seeking the return of certain personal property to an estate.

In December 1992, 69-year-old Willodean Duke Cray was taken to a hospital emergency room. At first it was thought that she was suffering from gallbladder problems, but it was later determined that she had suffered a major heart attack and would have to undergo open heart surgery. She was told that she could not wear her rings to surgery, and it is undisputed that she asked that her niece Margaret Ann Coley keep them for her. It is also undisputed that, on the way to…