Glenovich v. Zurich

Citations

• 19 S.D. 37
• 101 N.W. 1103
• 1904 S.D. LEXIS 110

Syllabus

<p>Where one whose true name was “Jacob Zurich” took title to real estate as “Jacob Zujic,” in which name it was recorded, and thereafter mortgaged it successively first under the name “Jack Zujic,:” which was recorded as “Jack Zurch”; second, as “Jack Zulich,” his wife joining as “Mary Zulich”; and, third, as Jacob Zurich, his wife joining as “Pere Zurich” — the third mortgagee was not entitled to claim priority over either of the other mortgagees, since, had he examined the record, ‘he would have found that his mortgagor, as far as the record-showed, had no title to the property.</p>