Safford v. Charles

This is a writ of entry. The demandants’ title is by deed from one Jacobs, executed and delivered in 1878, and recorded in 1880. The tenant’s bill is under a levy and sale on execution in 1881, in a suit against Jacobs, in which the premises were attached in 1879. The demandants held an unrecorded deed when the premises were attached as the property of their grantor, and had recorded their deed before judgment and execution. The question is whether the sale on the execution is valid against them.

S. C. Bancroft, for the tenant. (r. B: Ives, for the demandants.

The ad damnum in the writ against…