People's Building & Loan Ass'n v. Roane

People’s Building and Loan Association of Hampton, Virginia, presented to this court its petition for a writ of mandamus (Const. §88, Code § 17-96) to compel the clerk of the Circuit Court of Gloucester county to admit to record a power of attorney tendered to him for recordation. The clerk refused to admit it to record because in his opinion the acknowledgment of the instrument did *917not meet the requirements of the statute, § 55-113 of the Code, “in that the date of the writing and the name of the person executing the instrument were omitted entirely,” so stated his answer to the petition.

The…