In Re Estate of Shedrick

PRESIDING JUSTICE MEJDA

delivered the opinion of the court:

Katie Bailey, executor of the estate of Clarence Shedrick, appeals from an order declaring valid a quit-claim deed from Shedrick to Ernest M. Isby. She raises the following issues: (1) whether the deed was properly delivered and accepted; (2) whether the grantee’s redelivery of the executed, unrecorded duplicate original deed to the executor affected the passing of title; (3) whether the court erred in finding that no fiduciary relationship existed between Shedrick and Isby and that there was no evidence of overreaching. For the…