Sinclair v. Slawson

This is a bill to foreclose a mortgage. The defendants claim the premises as bona fide purchasers under the mortgagor. The only question of law which is raised by the record is whether the mortgage is defeated by the conveyances to these defendants by reason of an error in record-, ing it. It appeared that the register of deeds was making use in his office of books made up of printed blanks and that in attempting to fill up one of these for the record of the mortgage in suit, he wholly omitted the name of the mortgagee. It is not pretended that in any other particular the record was…