Burroughs v. Burroughs
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Tuscaloosa County Court. Heard before Hon. H. B. Foster; Bill by Martha C. Burroughs against James C. Burroughs, to enforce a vendor’s lien.
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Appeal from Tuscaloosa County Court. Heard before Hon. H. B. Foster; Bill by Martha C. Burroughs against James C. Burroughs, to enforce a vendor’s lien. Decree for complainant and respondent appeals, Under the facts alleged in the hill no vendor’s lien was created.— Gardner v. Knight, 124 Ala. 278; Parrish v. Eastings, 102 Ala. 414; 3 Pom. sec. 1251 and note; Bridgeport L. & I. Go. v. A. F. S- G. Go., 94 Ala. 592; Plowman v-Riddle, 14 Ala. 167. —Complainant had a vendor’s lien and the court properly enforced it. — Bridgeport L. & I. Go. v. A. F. S. Go-, 94 Ala. 592; Parrish v. Eastings, 102…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLELLAN, J.
The decree appealed from declared, and directed the enforcement of, a vendor’s lien as *330prayed in complainant’s (appellee’s) bill. The bill, in paragraph 4, expressly alleges that the consideration for the conveyance, of her land, by complainant to J. B. Burroughs, “was that Burroughs should support and maintain the complainant for the balance of her life; that the support and maintenance of the complainant for the period of her natural life was and is the agreed purchase price for the said lands”; or that the consideration was that Burroughs should furnish a reasonable amount necessary to her…
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