Hood v. Hood

NICHOLS, Justice.

The Defendants appeal from the judgment of the Superior Court in York County which declared a quitclaim deed from Fannie P. Hood to Kenneth E. Hood to be void and inoperative. They assert, as their sole issue on this appeal, that the court below erred in concluding that there was no valid delivery of the deed in question.

We deny the appeal.

Prior to March of 1974, the Plaintiff, Fannie P. Hood, held title to certain farm property in the town of Dayton, upon which she and her son, Kenneth E. Hood, lived. In that month, Mrs. Hood, then in her mid-eighties, entered a hospital for…