Fostoria Gold Mining Co. v. Hazard

Action to enforce a vendor’s lien for the unpaid purchase price of lands. From a decree in plaintiffs’ favor, defendant appeals.

The complaint does not state a cause of action. In substance it charges merely that, at defendant’s request, at a certain time plaintiffs delivered to a bank in escrow two deeds; one of which was from one of the plaintiffs, Morris Hazard, to defendant for certain described lands, and the other from the two plaintiffs jointly to defendant for certain other described lands; which two deeds, and two other certain deeds already in the bank covering a part of the property…