New Steelton Lumber Co. v. Pierce

The court will proceed at once to a discussion of the vital points.

While not pleaded, a vendor’s lien was insistently claimed during the trial for 3. Elwood Bulen against each of the properties. As this lien would take precedence over all others, it will be first discussed.

The method of procedure as to each sale was as follows: First, a contract of sale between Bulen and Pierce; generally, several weeks later a deed to Pierce and a simultaneous execution of a mortgage by him and by his wife, Cornelia R. Pierce, securing a note for the balance of the purchase price, upon which appeared the the…