Leslie v. Click

The bill had for its purpose the removal of a cloud from real property in Marshall county. The answer and cross-bill asserted the validity of Miss Leslie’s mortgage, and prayed foreclosure. This mortgage was immediately recorded in Madison county where a portion of the land lay, and was delayed in its record in Marshall county, where some of the land embraced in that conveyance was south of Paint Rock river. Between the time of record in the two counties, a conveyance of the Marshall county lands was effected by the grantor in the Leslie mortgage.

The system of recordation of written…