Benscotter v. Green
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Caroline County, in Equity. The case is stated, in the opinion of the ■ Court. The appeal was taken from a decree dismissing the hill of the complainants, without prejudice to any future proceedings which they might consider proper to institute.
1Opinion of the CourtIrving, J.
The original bill in this' cause charges, that the appellant, on the 22nd of May, 1878, being the owner in fee óf certain lands in Caroline County, Maryland, conveyed the same to Miles W. Green and wife, the appellees, who, in consideration thereof, promised to pay or secure to be paid to tire complainant the sum of five thousand dollars. This consideration money, the bill charges to be wholly unpaid and overdue, and prayer is made for a sale of the land for the payment thereof In other words, it is a bill to enforce an alleged vendor's lien. An interlocutory decree seems to have been…
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