Roberts v. Wallace

The respondents and defendants, owning certain lands in St. Louis county, signed a contract which recited that the defendants sold and conveyed to the plaintiff and appellant an undivided one-third interest therein for $10,000. The contract set forth, for the further consideration of one dollar, the agreement

That said sum of ten thousand dollars, with interest thereon at the rate of five per cent, per annum from this date till paid, is and shall be a charge and lien upon the whole of said land and premises in favor of said party [said plaintiff] for the term of five years from date hereof and…