61 Miss. 593 | Miss. | 1884
delivered the opinion of the court.
The question is, who shall suffer loss from an error of the clerk in recording a deed duly acknowledged and lodged with him for record? Hoes the grantee acquit himself fully of all duty when he delivers the deed to the proper officer for record, or is it his duty ,to see that the instrument is properly recorded? And if a mistake is made in recording by which a subsequent grantee is misled and injured, whose claim shall prevail, that of the first grantee, who relied on the officer to do his duty, or of the second grantee, who, in
The judgment of the circuit court is reversed and the cause remanded for a new trial.