96 Ga. 421 | Ga. | 1895
This was an equitable action to cancel a deed alleged to be a forgery. On the trial of the case the plaintiffs, for the purpose of proving by comparison of handwriting the alleged forgery, offered in evidence a deed purporting to be signed by the same person whose name was signed as grantor to the alleged forged deed. The deed thus offered appeared to have been executed more than thirty years prior to the time of the trial, and there was evidence that the alleged grantor surrendered possession to the person named as grantee therein, and that the
Judgment' reversed*