Gray v. Law

Citations

• 6 Idaho 559
• 57 P. 435
• 1899 Ida. LEXIS 38

Syllabus

<p>Mortgage — Married Woman — Acknowledgment.—Where a certificate of acknowledgment of a married woman is valid on its face, and is attacked on the ground that it js false, the validity of the .certificate will be sustained, unless the proof of the falsity is clear and convincing, and establishes the fact beyond a reasonable doubt.</p> <p>Same — Cebtieicate oe Pbooe. — Public policy requires a certificate of acknowledgment, if in proper form, to prevail over the unsupported evidence of the grantor, and especially is that true where the grantor admits that she signed the instrument to which such certificate belongs.</p> <p>(Syllabus by the court.)</p>