UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT

MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC
REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as
nominee for InterBay Funding, LLC,
Plaintiff-Appellant,

v.

TAMMY CHURCH; CHARLES O.
DAVIS,
Defendants,

and

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Defendant-Appellee.

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SUTTON, Circuit Judge. It sometimes pays to check a map. The mortgage lender in this case did not, and as a result it recorded an interest in Tammy Church’s property in the wrong county. Luckily for the public fisc, the IRS, which also placed a lien on Church’s property, did not make the same mistake. When the lender realized what had happened, it sued, seeking in equity what it could not get in law—a declaration that it had the superior claim to the property. Equity does not save the lender in this instance, and we therefore affirm.

Full opinion below…

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Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc v. Tammy Church