Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance v. Knox

If the subject dealt with in this decision were not so important I would content myself with a simple dissent, without discussion, hut I think that it operates to destroy the force and effect of a progressive and salutary law, upon which those who have the duty of investigating and abstracting titles, and the profession generally, have been accustomed to rely, and who are now turned back to the uncertainty and difficulties of a blind search.

Succinctly stated, the holding is that statutes requiring notice of Us pendens to be filed and properly cross-indexed in a Us pendens docket do not apply…