Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. v. American Crystal, Inc.

Section 5 of chapter 332 of the Public Laws provides that the Register of Deeds shall keep a general index of all real estate attachments and that he shall enter therein at the time he receives a writ or other process the names of the plaintiff and defendant in the action.

It was of course incumbent upon the intervenor to make inquiry concerning the title of the property which he purchased. This he did by searching the records in the Register’s office. Since no proceedings were then pending to set aside the alleged fraudulent conveyance, neither the name of George Delay nor that of Emma Delay…