Higgins v. Thornton

| ¾Appellant Brenda Higgins appeals the Lonoke County Circuit Court’s grant of summary judgment in a quiet-title action to appellees Bob Thornton, as trustee of the Tonya Merritt Heffner Trust, and Arkansas Children’s Hospital. Higgins contends the trial court erred in granting summary judgment to the appellees because material facts were in dispute concerning whether a deed to 240 acres of land had been delivered. We affirm the grant of summary judgment.

Alpha Burnett, Brenda Higgins’s mother and Tonya Merritt Heffner’s grandmother, owned 240 acres in Lonoke County. In June 1994, Burnett…