Meyers v. Meyers

This appeal involves the scope of the duty imposed upon a notary public to ascertain the identity of a person seeking the notary’s certificate on a deed.

The appellant, Genny A. Tenny, was a duly commissioned notary public who took an acknowledgment on a quitclaim deed. The signature of the grantor was forged by the grantee and the deed was used to clear title in the grantee, who subsequently conveyed the property by war ranty deed to a purchaser. The true owner of the property (the named grantors on the quitclaim deed) succeeded in upsetting the sale by an action to quiet title. The…