Ackerman v. Abbott

STEADMAN, Senior Judge.

One of the most ancient questions that courts (and generations of law students) have been called on to answer is: Who owns Blackacre? So here, in this appeal, we examine the competing claims of two parties to a piece of real property. One, the appellee, is the grantee as trustee of a fee-simple deed of the property that the grantor, at the time of the conveyance, did not own. The other, the appellant, is the subsequent assignee of the grantor’s interest in a different trust of which she was the sole principal beneficiary and whose res was to include the same parcel of…