Rumph, Clerk v. Lester Land Company

This appeal involves Act 169 of the 1943 General Assembly of Arkansas, which act is the Uniform Acknowledgment Act approved by the Governor and effective (by emergency) on March 4, 1943. The question here is whether Act 169 of 1943 supersedes the previous laws of this State on acknowledgments or merely provides an alternative law on that subject.

Appellant is the Circuit Clerk and Ex-Officio Recorder of Ouachita county, and on June 8, 1943, appellee tendered to the appellant a deed for recording. Appellant refused to record the deed, claiming the acknowledgment was not duly authenticated under…