27 Me. 341 | Me. | 1847
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The land demanded was set off to the plaintiff by levy on execution as the property of Samuel Smith, as whose it had been attached on the original writ in the suit, to satisfy the judgment on which the execution had issued. The attachment bears date Jan. 20, 1836. Before that time Smith had taken a mortgage of the premises in fee, and had assigned it to one Hasey, who had assigned the same to the tenant; so that the tenant had, before the attachment, acquired a good title to the premises demanded, against Smith, he being estopped to dispute the title he had thus been the means of making to the tenant; and Smith’s privies in estate are also estopped. If he had, subsequent to these assignments, conveyed the premises to the plaintiff, he could not sustain a title, so acquired, against that of the tenant under the mortgage and assignments. The attachment and subsequent levy amount to nothing more than a statute mode of conveyance ’ from Smith to the plaintiff. Either mode of conveyance must be subject to all prior liens created by the grantor and regularly apparent of record.
The decision in the case of Pierce v. Taylor, 23 Maine R. 246, cited by the plaintiff’s counsel, as decisively in his favor, is very distinguishable from the case here. In that case Smith,