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 & Guaranty Company on November g, 1907, and continued and certified to by the Westergaard-Blair Company on December 9, 1910, and the same was continued and a certificate of continuation dated July 20, 1915, which read as follows attached thereto:

“The Divide County Abstract Company hereby certifies that the within abstract of title has been continued from the 9th day of December, 1910, at 3 o’clock p. m. (numbered from 5 to 12, inclusive), and that the said continuation contains all the instruments of record in the office of the Register of Deeds affecting the title to the premises therein described since the day and hour above named.”

Shortly after Divide county was organized the county commissioners thereof made a contract with one M. R. Porter for the transcribing of the records of Williams county relating to real estate in Divide county, as prescribed by § 3211, C. L. 1913. The records were so transcribed, and on April 4, 1912, the county commissioners of Divide county adopted a resolution reciting that the records in the office of the register of deeds of Williams county had been so transcribed and were then contained in certain enumerated books, which were then in the office of the register of deeds of said Divide county, and that such records were accepted by the said county of Divide in full performance of the contract for the transcribing of records which had been entered into with the said M. R. Porter. The resolution also provided that it be—

“further resolved that the said records being contained in the books of records hereinbefore enumerated * * * hereby are adopted by the said county of Divide as and for the true records of all instruments affecting title to real property in said Divide county, and hereinbefore filed in the office of the register of deeds in and for Williams county while the territory now comprising the said county of Divide was a portion of said Williams county.”

The records so transcribed and filed in the office of the register of deeds of Divide county contained the record of an assignment of mortgage made by said M. E. Wilson & Co. to one S. E. Olcott. Such assignment of mortgage was executed June 22, 1910, and was recorded in the office of the register of deeds of Williams county on January 17, 1911, and, among others, assigned to said Olcott the mortgage which said M. E. Wilson & Co. had caused to be foreclosed, and upon which the sheriff's deed to said Lunde was based. This assignment was not shown upon the abstract so certified to by the defendant company, and the failure