Supreme Court of Georgia July 1, 1886 (McAlpin v. Bailey)

Blandford, J.

Where one took a deed to land to secure a debt, and gave bond to' reconvey upon its paj'ment,- and subsequently brought suit and recovered a gene’ral judgment against the debtor, and filed and had recorded a deed reconveying the land, and thereupon caused it to be levied on and sold, such judgment was entitled to the fund arising from the sale in preference to an older judgment,