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 Fidelity Savings Ass’n. 14 Ariz. 354, 128 Pac. 53; Ogle v. Turpin, 102 Ill. 148; Howard v. Ross, 5 Bradw. (Ill. App.) 456; Conn. Mut. Life Ins. Co. v. Talbot, et al. 113 Ind. 373 (where the provisions of a recording act authorizing recording of assignments of mortgages led the court to adopt a rule contrary to its previous decisions in Reeves v. Hayes, et al. 95 Ind. 521; Bank v. Anderson, 14 Iowa 545; McClure v. Burris, 16 Iowa 591; Bowling v. Cook, 39 Iowa, 200; Parmenter v. Oakley, 69 Iowa, 389; Livermore v. Maxwell, 87 Iowa 706, 55 N. W. 40; Central Trust Co. of Ill. v. Stepanek, 115 N. W. (Iowa) 891, 15 L. R. A. (N. S.) 1025; James, et al. v. Newman, et al. 126 N. W. (Iowa) 781; Jenks v. Shaw, gy iowa, 604; Lewis v. Kirk, 28 Kan. 356; Swasey v. Emerson, 168 Mass. 118; Ferguson v. Glassford, 68 Mich. 36, 47; Whipple v. Fowler, 41 Neb. 675, 60 N. W. 15; Ames v. Miller, 65 Neb. 204, 91 N. W. 250; Schwartz v. Laist, 13 Ohio State, 419; Henderson v. Pilgrim, 22 Tex. 464; Ladd v. Campbell, 56 Vt. 529; Friend v. Yahr, 126 Wis. 291, 104 N. W. 997; Marling v. Nomensen, 127 Wis. 363, 106 N. W. 844; Marling v. Jones, 138 Wis. 82; Note, 15 L. R. A. (N.S.) 1025 and Note, I. R.A. (N. S.) 1915F 554; 19 R. C. L. 364, 365; Jones on Mortgages, sth ed. § 479 (note change in text between 1 Jones on Mortgages, 4th ed. § 474, and 1 Jones on Mortgages, 7th ed. § 474); 2 Jones on Mortgages, 7th ed. § 820.

For contrary authorities, see Hebert v. Fellheimer, 115 Ark. 366, 171 S. W. 144; Northrup v. Reese, 67 So. (Fla.) 136; Hussey v. Fisher, 94 Me. 301; Jordon v. Cheney, 74 Me. 359; Cooper v. Newell, 263 Mo. 190; 172 S. W. 326.

Up to this point we have dealt with the case in hand as though it were in all ways parallel with a case where a mortgagee, after transferring mortgage notes, releases the mortgage and a bona fide purchaser or incumbrancer acquires an interest in the property without actual ot constructive notice of the transfer of the notes. We have done this for the reason that we are of the opinion that the plaintiff cannot possibly stand in a stronger situation with reference to the security of which it seeks to avail itself than as though a mortgage had in fact been given by Mrs. Howe-Hanlyn to Clifford. In reality the plaintiff's position is, if anything, weaker than that of an equitable assignee of an interest in a real estate mortgage.

We have also treated the circumstances of the transfer of legal title from Clifford to the Hendricks bank and the quit-claim deed from Mrs.