(footnote omitted). “[S]ubstantial evidence is evidence of such weight and quality that fair-minded persons in the exercise of impartial judgment can reasonably infer the existence of the fact sought to be proved.” West v. Founders Life Assurance Co. of Florida, 547 So.2d 870, 871 (Ala.1989); see Ala.Code 1975, § 12-21-12(d). “Whether a deed or other conveyance has been delivered is a question of fact to be ascertained from the circumstances surrounding the alleged delivery.” Jesse P. Evans III, Alabama Property Rights and Remedies § 4.3[p] at 4-45 (3d ed.2004) (footnote omitted). The intent of the grantor, not the knowledge of the grantee, is of paramount importance in determining whether a deed has been delivered. See, e.g., Strickland v. Griswold, 149 Ala. 325, 43 So. 105 (1907) (<HOLDING>); and Arrington v. Arrington, 122 Ala. 510, 26
holding that sellers agreement to furnish title policy was a separate agreement not superseded by the deed and properly not included in the deed recognizing that the right to seek reformation of a deed is limited to the original parties to the deed and their successors in title holding that a beneficiary under a deed of trust was entitled to reformation of the grantors deed holding that when a grantor delivered a deed to one of the cograntees therein telling her to keep it in a box and to deliver it to the proper parties at his death the title passed at that time irrespective of the place where the deed was kept holding a quitclaim deed yields only such interest in land as the grantor had at the time of the making of such deed