Bingham v. Hyland

The action was in equity to establish title to certain real estate in the plaintiff, as receiver of the First National Bank of Dansville, under an alleged lost and unrecorded deed from James and Samuel D. Faulkner to the bank, and to have a subsequent recorded deed from James Faulkner, ■of his interest in the same real estate, to the defendant, Hyland, and the record thereof, declared null, void, and of no effect as against the bank and the receiver. Title in the alleged grantors of the bank, at the date of their supposed deed, was admitted; also, in effect, that, but for the alleged deed to…