Sansom v. . Warren

Tbe plaintiff N. M. Johnson bas evidenced a chain of paper title from tbe common source sufficient, nothing else appearing, to establish bis right to be declared tbe owner of tbe lands in controversy. So bas tbe defendant. However, although defendant bas a priority in point of time of conveyance, tbe plaintiff’s deeds were recorded first. But for our Registration Act, 0. S., 3309, known as tbe Connor Act by virtue of tbe 1885 Amendment, tbe defendant, having tbe first conveyance, would have tbe superior title. Tbis familiar statute reads in part: “No conveyance of land, or contract to convey,…