Chaffin v. Solomon

This is a suit to quiet plaintiff’s title to real property. Defendant filed both a general denial and a cross-complaint to remove a cloud on defendant’s title to the same property. The trial court entered a decree quieting title in plaintiff, from which defendant appeals.

Defendant contends that as a judgment creditor of plaintiff’s grantor he obtained and docketed his judgment before plaintiff recorded her deed, with the result that under ORS 18.370 plaintiff’s unrecorded deed is void as against the lien of defendant’s judgment. Plaintiff both denies that contention and also contends that by…