Clement v. . Harrison

The question is this: Is a mortgage or deed of trust, which has been duly and properly registered and indexed under the “appropriate letter of the alphabet,” invalid by reason of the failure of the register of deeds to index the mortgage under a subdivision or catch-head of the “appropriate letter of the alphabet” ? Or, to state the proposition differently, would a mortgage or deed of trust so registered take priority over a subsequent mortgage or deed of trust properly indexed and registered under the subdivision or “catch-head” of the appropriate letter of the alphabet?

It appears from the…