Court Opinion

ID: 4921908
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-09-22 00:23:59.082467+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:14:05.283225
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Davis, C. J.
(Concurring). — Where the contention is that a married woman never at any time appeared before the notary whose certificate of acknowledgment is challenged on that ground, the court should decide that question as a factual question of jurisdiction of the notary to make a certificate before imparting a conclusive effect to the certificate. Once the notary has acquired jurisdiction by having the parties actually appear before him, then his certificate becomes conclusive in the absence of a clear and convincing showing of fraud or duress. That is in effect what we held in the case of McEwen v. Schenck, Receiver, cited above.
*258Whitfield, BeowN and Bufoed, J. J., concur.