SCHUELER v. FRANKE

No. 87-2438.

522 So.2d 904 (1988)

Jonathan SCHUELER, Appellant, v. Garnet FRANKE and Penelope T. Salsbury, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied April 6, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William C. Ballard and Anthony J. Russo of Fisher & Sauls, P.A., St. Petersburg, for appellant.

Stuart M. Rosenblum of Stuart M. Rosenblum, P.A., Clearwater, for appellees.


CAMPBELL, Judge.

The question before us is whether a grantee who knows that a deed is defectively witnessed and acknowledged may rely upon that deed to his detriment and estop the grantor from denying the validity of the deed. We find that he may not.

In August 1984, Jonathan Schueler and Louis Thalhoffer, who is not a party to this suit, orally agreed to buy a small apartment building in Pinellas County at a foreclosure sale. They successfully bid $21,400...

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