Bryce v. O'BRIEN

The action is one to quiet title to real property, and involves the rights of the respective parties as to claims arising under a forged, deed, one signed by plaintiff but placed in the hands of another party with the name of the grantee left blank. Plaintiff, an elderly widow, was induced by one Ruark to execute a blank deed covering certain real property in order, he suggested to plaintiff, to facilitate his efforts in arranging its exchange for certain bonds. Instead, the document was improperly used, and the name of the defendant, O’Brien, a partner of Ruark, was inserted therein. He…