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Million-Dollar Parcel Holds Up Time Shares

ORLANDO-Couple appeals a dismissed seven-year lawsuit which alleges their granddaughter stole their prime two-acre tract by forging the husband's name to a deed and selling the dirt to Universal Orlando for $500,000 per acre ($11.48 per sf). The husband paid $500 per acre (one cent per sf) 42 years ago.

By Alex Finkelstein | Updated on June 11, 2001

ORLANDO-The odds of victory are against them but Clarence Moore, 90 and his invalid wife, Savannah, 96, are appealing a dismissed seven-year Orange Circuit Court lawsuit which alleges their granddaughter forged their names to a 1994 deed and sold their prime, two-acre southwest Orlando tract to Universal Orlando for $1 million or $500,000 per acre ($11.48 per sf).

Meanwhile, Universal can’t break ground on its 70-acre, $100 million time-share project and championship golf course off Turkey Lake Road until the 5th District Court of Appeal in Daytona Beach, FL rules on the Moores’ latest legal action, real estate lawyers following the lengthy case tell GlobeSt.com.

Universal officials couldn’t be reached at GlobeSt.com’s publication deadline but lawyers familiar with the case tell GlobeSt.com on condition of anonymity, “Universal will win this thing again, but meanwhile they are between a rock and a hard place, unable to break ground on a multimillion-dollar undertaking.”

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