Partridge, Wells & Co. v. Chapman

It appears that Isaac Chapman executed a deed to Wm. E. Baird, and also a mortgage to Partridge, Wells & Co., on the same piece of land, and the controversy is as to which deed is first in date or delivery, or whether Baird took open, visible possession before the mortgage was filed for record. The deed to Baird obears date the 19th day of March, 1872. The date was first written the 18th, but that was erased and the 19th written in its stead. The mortgage bears date on the 18th.

The justice of the peace who wrote the deed and mortgage and took the acknowledgment of each, swears that the deed…