Salt Lake County v. Metro West Ready Mix, Inc.

DURRANT, Associate Chief Justice:

¶ 1 In this case we address whether a purchaser who obtains title to property through a wild deed can be a bona fide purchaser under Utah’s Recording Statute.

¶2 The dispute at issue is between Salt Lake County (the “County”) and Metro West Ready Mix, Inc. (“Metro West”) over the ownership of Parcel G, a fifteen-acre piece of property located in Utah County near the border between Utah and Salt Lake Counties (the “Property”). The County received legal title to the Property on December 4, 1878; however, it failed to record its deed in the Utah County Recorder’s…