Security Trust Co. v. Calafonas’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “"`* * * A transaction between two parties necessarily implies action, consent, knowledge or acquiescence on the part of both. Hence, if a grantor never in truth and in fact executed or attempted to execute an alleged deed to a given grantee, he is not and cannot be a party to the transaction, which on its face purports to be the execution by him of a deed to the named grantee. * * * * * * "`We are not now writing as to the probative force of such proof of execution, filing, and recording of the deed, but as to the conclusiveness of such matters to show a transaction between the grantor and grantee. We hold that the grantor in such document, no matter what its nature, character, or recitals, is not precluded, by such proof, such filing, and such recording, from showing that his alleged signature thereto and his acknowledgment thereto are forgeries and frauds, perpetrated without his knowledge or consent. If this be not true, one man can acquire, for his estate after his death, all the property of another, without the knowledge or consent of such other, and yet do it by due process of law. We say the law is not, and ought not to be such as to allow such proceedings or results.'"”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 98 So. 2d 493 - Gerlach v. Donnelly

2. “`* * * A transaction between two parties necessarily implies action, consent, knowledge or acquiescence on the part of both. Hence, if a grantor never in truth and in fact executed or attempted to execute an alleged deed to a given grantee, he is not and cannot be a party to the transaction, which on its face purports to be the execution by him of a deed to the named grantee. * * * * * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 98 So. 2d 493 - Gerlach v. Donnelly

3. ““ * * * The issue of whether the deed involved was a forgery was a question of fact. The lower Court heard all of the evidence and entered the final decree in which he found the deed ‘was and is a forgery.’ The record contains substantial, competent evidence to support this finding and that is all the law requires.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 237 So. 2d 266 - Pate v. Mellen