Atkins' Guardian v. McCoy

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Rees

Affirming in part and reversing in part.

Mary Kathleen Atkins, an infant, brought an action by her guardian against Ethel Atkins McCoy to have declared void as a forgery a deed produced for record October 9, 1931, which purported to have been executed September 28, 1917, by Gr. J. Atkins, plaintiff’s father, to his sister, the defendant. Gr. J. Atkins died intestate August 26, 1925, leaving the plaintiff surviving him as his sole heir at law. No attack was made in the petition on the officer’s certificate of acknowledgment, which purported to be signed by J. B.…