Yellow Pine Lumber Co. v. Jernigan

Citations

• 56 Fla. 891

Syllabus

<p>1. When the equities of a bill to declare the holder of the legal title to land the trustee for the equitable owner depends upon an adverse holding and a recorded conveyance from the original owner which failed to convey perfect title for lack of a seal only, the bill is properly dismissed when the proof fails as to adverse holding and the instrument of conveyance lacks not only seal but fails of witnesses to the signature and the evidence malees it probable that the supposed grantor never signed the instrument.</p> <p>2. The failure to obtain the ruling of the Chancellor upon objections to evidence affects only its admissibility or competency, not its probative force.</p>