19 S.D. 41 | S.D. | 1904
This is an action to quiet title to a tract of land in McCook county. The case was tried to the court upon an agreed statement of facts and one deposition, and the statement of facts constitutes the court’s findings. Upon the findings the court concludes, as matter of law, that the defendants were entitled to judgment; and from the judgment so entered, and from-the order denying a new trial, the plaintiff has appealed. The plaintiff deraigns title from one Thomas H. Con-niff and wife, through foreclosure proceedings had by advertisement under a trust deed executed by the s'aid Conniff and wife to E. S. Ormsby and P. 0. Refsell in July, 1886; and the defendant deraigns title from the said Thomas H. Conniff and wife through various conveyances to the same property. The main question presented for our consideration is as to whether
Section 974 of the Civil Code of 1903 provides: .“The acknowledgment of an instrument must not be taken unless the officer taking it knows, or has satisfactory evidence, on the oath or affirmation of a credible witness, that the person making such acknowledgment is the individual who is described in and who executed the instrument; or if executed by a corporation, that the person making such acknowledgment is the president or secretary of such corporation. ” And section 981 gives the form of a certificate of acknowledgment executed.by a corporation, and provides that the officer must certify that the person acknowledging is known to him or proved to him to be the ‘ ‘president or secretary of the corporation, that is described in and that executed the instrument. ” It will be observed that, in the certificate of acknowledgment above given, the notary certifies that “H. G. Deming and Clinton Hunter.
The judgment of the court below and order denying a new trial are affirmed.