Blagg v. Hunter
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Randolph Circuit Gowrt. Hon. B. H. Neely, Circuit Judge. The deed should have been admitted by the Court to go to the jury as an enrolled or recorded •deed; the certificate of the clerk should have been received, admitting it to record, thereby placing the plaintiff within sections 7 and 8, articled, chapter 153, Digest. As to the effect upon the plaintiff produced by the rejection of the deed, as an unrecorded deed, see 2 Bl. Com. 441/ 2 Kent Com. 354/ 1 Ark.
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Appeal from Randolph Circuit Gowrt. Hon. B. H. Neely, Circuit Judge. The deed should have been admitted by the Court to go to the jury as an enrolled or recorded •deed; the certificate of the clerk should have been received, admitting it to record, thereby placing the plaintiff within sections 7 and 8, articled, chapter 153, Digest. As to the effect upon the plaintiff produced by the rejection of the deed, as an unrecorded deed, see 2 Bl. Com. 441/ 2 Kent Com. 354/ 1 Ark. Rep. 87/ 7 J. J. Marsh. 204/ Dig., ch. 73, sec. 6*/ ch. 153, sec. 7 and 8. Until the act of the Legislature of the 19th…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chief Justice "WateiNS
delivered the opinion of the Court-
In an action of trover for a slave, the plaintiff claimed title by gift from one Lewis, and on the trial offered a deed of gift from Lewis to him, dated 10th of July, 1841, which purported to-have been acknowledged by the donor before the clerk and ex-officio> recorder of Randolph. county, and by him filed for record in his office, all on the same day. The acknowledgment is attested by tbe signature only of tbe clerk, not accompanied by his seal of office, or purporting to be sealed. Tbe validity of this deed was also assailed by…
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