Butchers' Ice & Supply Co. v. Bascom

The sole question here involved is whether a certificate of attachment of real estate duly lodged in the office of the town clerk and received and filed by him, but which he fails to record or index, effects a valid attachment of the property as against a subsequent purchaser in good faith without actual notice of the attachment. In August, 1925, the plaintiff brought suit against John P. O’Conner and Helen M. O’Conner, who owned real estate located in the town of Glastonbury, and the officer to whom the writ in that action was given for service lodged with the town clerk of Glastonbury a…