Booth v. . Hairston

The decision in this case, as I understand it, is put upon the ground that the deed of gift from Mrs. A. E. George to her son, Samuel Hairston, is void because not registered within two years after its making, and that the Legislature is without power, following a hiatus of one year five months and twenty-nine days after it was declared void under the terms of O. S., 3315, to authorize its registration and render it valid as between the parties by the curative or extending *287act of 1924. I respectfully dissent from this position, for the reasons so clearly stated by Ruffin, J., in Jones v.…