Fuqua v. Fuqua

COULSON, Justice.

This is a suit for a declaratory judgment. The issue is whether a deed executed and placed in escrow by a grantor may be delivered to the grantee upon grantee’s compliance with the terms of the escrow after grantor’s death where the earnest money contract provides that the form and content of the instruments must be approved by the grantee’s attorney.

J. P. Fuqua sued his brothers, P. V. Fu-qua, Jr., and Floyd Fuqua, and Selected Lands Corporation (SLC) seeking a judgment declaring invalid a deed to 50 acres from Birdie H. Fuqua, a widow, the mother of the Fuqua brothers, to…