Gaither v. Slack

This proceeding was instituted by the appellant, assignee of Joseph Slack, to enforce a vendor’s lien upon a farm in Carroll County.

It appears from the record, that on the eighteenth of March, 1891, a certain Joseph Slack sold and conveyed to his son, the appellee, the farm in question, for the consideration (as stated in the deed), “ of natural love and affection which I, the said Joseph Slack, have and bear towards my son, as also for the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars.” For two thousand dollars thereof the son gave to his father his promissory note, payable in three years, and to…