McCoy v. Love

This cause is before the Court on petition for certiorari to review the decision of the court below, Love v. Elliott, 350 So.2d 93 (Fla.1st DCA 1977), on the ground that it is in conflict with a decision of another district court of appeal. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 3(b)(3), Fla. Const.

Mary V. Nowling Elliott, now deceased, brought an action seeking the cancellation of a deed. The trial court found that Mrs. Elliott, a simple, elderly woman who could neither read nor write, owned an undivided one-fifth interest in the minerals underlying a seventy-five acre tract of land. In January…