Page v. Will McKnight Construction, Inc.

SMITH, Presiding Judge.

After a landowner granted two different deeds to secure debt on the same property to Mount Vernon Bank and Will McKnight Construction, Inc., McKnight brought a declaratory action to settle the priority of its deed over that of the bank’s successor-in-interest, Melanie Page. A jury found that McKnight had actual notice of the bank’s defectively recorded deed and that McKnight had not made adequate inquiry concerning it. After the trial court entered judgment in Page’s favor, McKnight moved for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or, in the alternative, for new trial.…