LEMMON, Judge.
The issue in this appeal is whether a recorder of mortgages, when a mortgage certificate is requested in the name of John Francis Short, is liable in damages for not reporting a mortgage registered in the name of John F. Short. The trial court answered in the affirmative and rendered judgment against the recorder for the amount that plaintiffs (the attorney who examined the title and the notary who passed the sale) paid the mortgagee to purchase an...
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