Court Opinion

ID: 9703305
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 23:51:19.88375+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:21:47.412851
License: Public Domain

DUNN, Justice
(dissenting).
I dissent.
I am in complete agreement that the deed in this case accomplished the intent of the mother and that an equitable result was reached. I am also convinced that the plaintiff and defendant were equally responsible for the manner in which this signature was obtained.
I am more firmly convinced, however, that a court should never countenance the execution of a written instrument by one party holding a pen in the limp hand of a dying woman while the other party pushes her arm up and down to make an X for a signature on a deed! This is further compounded in the notary’s certification of the signature by a person admittedly in the hospital but who “may or may not” have been in the room to witness this bizarre event.