Fox v. Hall

The chief question in this case is, whether one who takes a quit-claim deed without notice of a prior unrecorded conveyance from the same grantor, acquires a good title. This precise question has never been passed upon by this court. The provisions of our statute requiring conveyances to be recorded, and declaring the effect of unrecorded deeds are as follows :

Section 691. “ Every instrument in writing that conveys any real estate, or whereby any real estate may be affected, in law or equity, proved or acknowledged, and certified in the manner hereinbefore prescribed, shall be recorded in the…