Gose v. Perry

WADDILL, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a judgment voiding a recorded deed from Harris Gose and his wife to their grandson, Happy Gose, on the ground that the purported signature of the grantor, Harris Gose, was a forgery.

The circuit court found as a fact that Harris Gose had not signed or acknowledged the instrument in question; that Harris Gose was dead at the time the alleged deed was purportedly executed; and that the certificate of the notary, to the effect that Harris Gose had acknowledged the instrument, was untrue.

The witnesses introduced to establish the forgery were: A notary,…