Standard Finance Co. v. Little

The appellant, a mortgagee of land and chattels, has sued the clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City for damages supposed to have resulted from a failure to enter its mortgage in the general index of land records kept by the clerk. The appeal is from a judgment for the defendant •entered on the sustaining of a demurrer to the third amended •■declaration.

The appellant contends that the indexing of conveyances, is .-a part of the recording which is required to pass title, and 'that without an indexing of the particular instrument the recording was not complete, the mortgage lien was not…