Florida man, 92, testifies relatives `just took' his homestead.(The Orlando Sentinel)

ORLANDO, Fla. _ A 92-year-old illiterate man told a judge Monday that his wife's relatives used a forged deed to sell his homestead to Universal Studios Florida for $1 million and gave him "not even a penny."

"They just took it from me, and I ain't got nothing," Clarence Moore told Orange County Circuit Court Judge Joseph Baker. "I ain't give it to nobody. They took it from me."

Moore was the first witness in his lawsuit against Universal and his wife's granddaughter, who says the couple gave her the 2-acre homestead on Turkey Lake Road that they bought for $2,000 in 1959.

In their opening arguments, attorneys for the granddaughter and Universal said Monday there was no forgery, and they suggested Moore was mistaken or confused.

A retired grove worker and baker, Moore said he attended only the first grade when growing up in rural South Carolina and never learned to read or write. His wife, Savannah, who died last year at age 96, took care of financial matters for most of their marriage, he said.

Moore, who signs his name with an X, said he never signed the 1987 deed that ...