Hadlock v. Showcase Real Estate, Inc.

HOWE, Justice:

The defendant Morris Myers appeals from a decree quieting title to certain real property in Utah County in the plaintiffs and adjudging that he had no right, title or interest therein.

The plaintiffs, owners of the subject property, sold it to Showcase Real Estate, Inc., on a uniform real estate contract. Subsequently, the buyer’s interest was assigned to Alvin R. Smith, who assigned it to Marcy G. Myers who, in turn, assigned it to the defendant Morris Myers. Although notice of the assignment to the defendant was never given to the plaintiffs, the defendant recorded in the…