Security Trust Co. v. Calafonas

DREW, Justice.

Appellee, plaintiff below, brought suit to quiet his title to real estate, claiming a certain deed of record was a forgery and void.

At the trial over objection, appellee was allowed to testify that he did not execute the questioned deed.

The Chancellor held the deed a forgery and ordered its cancellation. From that final decree appellant, defendant below, brings this appeal.

The sole question here presented for determination is whether Section 90.05, F.S. 1951, F.S.A., commonly known as the Dead Man’s Statute, precludes the putative grant- or in a deed, the named grantee of which…