Riggs v. Baleman

Plaintiff in error, S. H. Riggs, instituted this suit to recover of O. G. Baleman upon certain vendor’s lien notes executed by the latter in part payment of the land conveyed to him and to foreclose, as against defendant in error, the vendor’s lien retained in the deed of conveyance; Clark McClammy having gone into possession under a quitclaim deed from O. G. Baleman executed subsequent to Baleman’s purchase from Riggs. McClammy resisted the foreclosure of the lien, and asked to be discharged upon the ground that the land upon which it was attempted to he retained was unappropriated public…