Likens v. Pate

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Hobson

Reversing.

On April 30, 1877, E. C. Hoover & Company brought suit in the Ohio Circuit Court against John I. Felix on three notes, each for $100, executed for the price of a tract of land conveyed to him by Frank M. Heavrin, the deed showing a lien for the payment of the notes, and being duly recorded. In that action on November 25, 1879, a judgment was entered upon the notes adjudging them a lien on the land and directing its sale. The sale was made on November 22, 1880; the land was appraised at $400, and the plaintiffs bought it for $325. At the…