Hanrick v. Walker
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Macon. Heard before the Hon. B. B. MoCraw. The bill in this case was filed by Edward G. Hanrick, the •appellant, as the sole heir-at-law and distributee of Edward Hanrick, deceased, against Mrs. Mary E. Walker, and sought to enforce a vendor’s lien for the unpaid purchase-money of land, which had been sold to the said defendant by said Edward Hanrick in his lifetime.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Macon. Heard before the Hon. B. B. MoCraw. The bill in this case was filed by Edward G. Hanrick, the •appellant, as the sole heir-at-law and distributee of Edward Hanrick, deceased, against Mrs. Mary E. Walker, and sought to enforce a vendor’s lien for the unpaid purchase-money of land, which had been sold to the said defendant by said Edward Hanrick in his lifetime. The chancellor dismissed the bill, on demurrer, for want of equity; and his decree is now assigned as error.
1Opinion of the CourtB. F. Saffold, J.
The bill was to enforce the vendor’s lien upon land. It was dismissed, on demurrer. The appellant, as complainant, alleged that he was the heir-at-law and sole distributee of Edward Hanrick, deceased, whose estate had been finally settled. The decedent had in his lifetime sold to the appellee the land in question, and had taken her three promissory notes, signed also by J. F. Jackson, for the purchase-money. These notes expressed that they were given for the land. The note first due was afterwards taken up, and a bill of exchange given in lieu, drawn by Jackson on Mrs. Walker, and accepted by…
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