Swift & Co. v. State Mut. Life Ins.

SIBLEY, District Judge.

The security deed here involved was attested by a poliey holder of the grantee, a mutual insurance company, and recorded on the attestation. A, junior judgment creditor of the grantor claims a better lien on the property conveyed because the record was unavailing, in that the official witness was disqualified by being a member of the corporation benefited by the deed. The attesting notary was a lawyer, represented the borrower in procuring the loan to secure which the deed was made, and was active in conducting the execution and record of the deed, being trusted by both…