Williams v. White Castle Lumber & Shingle Co.

Citations

• 114 La. 448
• 38 So. 414
• 1905 La. LEXIS 487

Syllabus

<p>VEN DOB AND PURCHASES — QUITCLAIM DEED— BONA PIDES — NOTICE—FAILURE TO BECOBD TITLE.</p> <p>1. Acquisition of property under a quitclaim title loses its significance as a circumstance tending to show bad faith in the purchaser where a sufficient explanation is given, and more particularly when it is admitted as a fact that such purchaser acquired in good faith and without notice.</p> <p>2. Act No. 97, p. 107, of 1890, provides for the registry in the office of the recorders of the respective parishes of the titles to lands thereby conveyed by the state to the board of commissioners of the Atchafalaya levee district, and the general law upon the subject of registry applies to the conveyance of all Idnds alienated by said board.</p> <p>3. Where A. sells land of which he is the owner to B., who fails to record his title, O., subsequently purchasing the same land from A. in good faith, and without notice of the prior conveyance, acquires a good title as against B.</p> <p>(Syllabus by the Court.!</p>