Burk v. Chrisman

Under a decretal sale of a tract of land, in which an express lien was reserved as collateral security for the price, one Willis Burk bought the land, and gave his bonds for the consideration, with Chrisman and Crozier as his sureties. Burk having afterwards sold the land to several persons — a distinct portion to each¡ left the State, and became insolvent, and his said sureties having been compelled to pay the amount of the bonds for the original price, filed a bill in Chancery claiming an equitable substitution, and an enforcement of the lien reserved as aforesaid, to the original creditors…