Wright v. Buchanan

This is a writ of error sued out to reverse a decree of the circuit court of Richland county finding that the executors of the will of Samuel Berry, deceased, had a vendor’s lien for $2500 against about 76 acres of land in that county. The bill was filed by Berry in his lifetime and the testimony was partially heard, including his own, before his death, which occurred during the pendency of the suit. His executors and heirs were substituted as complainants in the bill and a decree was thereafter rendered.

At the time of the hearing Samuel Berry was about eighty-three years of age. He had been…