Hope v. Hope

Griffin Smith, Chief Justice.

Our decision turns primarily upon the effect to be given a deed executed March 9, 1926, by which James Hope and his wife, Lillie, conveyed to Community Bank & Trust Company two tracts of land for the benefit of William Thomas Hope, their insane son; but, in determining the purpose of this conveyance, it is necessary to say whether the lands were ancestral estates or new acquisitions by the afflicted son. Other points of controversy involve the attempt of William’s parents to reacquire the property after their son died in 1936 (a) by inheritance if the estate were…