Smith v. Lockridge

NAHMIAS, Justice.

This case involves the validity of a 2005 deed, as well as 11 earlier deeds that the grantor executed between 1975 and 1980 but retained in his possession and recorded approximately 20 years later after altering the deeds to substitute new grantees for the original grantees. The case has a convoluted procedural history, but ultimately the trial court granted summary judgment upholding both the 2005 deed and the 1975-1980 deeds, and the plaintiffs have appealed that ruling. The two issues that control this appeal are: (1) whether the trial court properly rejected the…