Hawkins v. Stoffers

ON PETITION EOR REHEARING

Blume, Chief Justice.

The respondent has filed a petition for a rehearing herein. The first point urged is that we were wrong in holding that the unrecorded deed of the Guaranteed Securities Company was not good as against Hawkins, a purchaser in good faith and for a valuable consideration, under an executory contract of purchase. Counsel argue that because the deed was recorded in the fall of 1925, about thirty days prior to the recording of the executory contract for sale, the deed takes precedence, notwithstanding the fact that Hawkins purchased the property, paid…