Bill's Printing, Inc. v. Carder

RTert L. Brown, Juhe majority opinion

dissenting. I dissent because The majority opinion essentially nullifies inquiry-notice as this state’s standard for real estate title searches and in doing so overrules more than one hundred years of real estate property law.

The majority holds that a purchaser of land (Bill’s Printing) is a bona-fide purchaser for value without notice even when the chain of title shows that the land he bought was vested in a third party (the Carders) by limited-warranty deed. The majority does so based on a cancellation deed issued by the Land Commissioner to the Carders…