Thees v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Kephart,

Appellees, Mathias J. Thees and Gertrude C. Thees, owned certain real estate as tenants by entireties. Frank J. Kirst, a brother of Mrs. Thees, who was in financial difficulties through stock market transactions, informed his sister of his trouble and asked her aid. She agreed to help him, and later he visited her home and presented a deed to her for signature. She signed, it, but her husband’s name was not then on the document. It appeared subsequently as a deed from them to Kirst. The husband’s signature had been forged as was that of the notary in the…