Cochran v. Clements

Rodney, J.,

delivering the opinion of the Court:

It is immediately apparent that the abstract of judgment and execution filed on October 17th, 1934, was not filed within two days of the issuance of the execution on October 13th. That question, however, is not material, as the only statutory effect was the loss of priority over a subsequent execution and there was no such subsequent execution. The only relevancy the abstract has to this case is the additional constructive notice of the existence of the execution that such abstract gave to the present defendants.

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