In Re: Estate of Plance Appeal of: Plance, J.

OPINION

JUSTICE WECHT

We granted allowance of appeal to determine rightful title to a parcel of real property claimed by competing grantees, each of whom invokes a real or purported conveyance from the property’s owner. We granted review to consider as well the application of res judicata and collateral estoppel during estate administration proceedings with regard to an earlier order of the Orphans’ Court determining the validity of a will.

Relying upon a presumption that valid delivery of a deed occurs on the date of its execution and acknowledgment, the Superior Court held that title to the…