Lindsey v. Bates
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Attala county. lion. J. A. P. Campbell, chancellor. Appellants filed their bill to enforce vendor’s lien on a note given by appellee to Presley for certain lots in the town of Goodman. The note, which was payable to bearer, was transferred by endorsement to Lindsey. Appellee demurred, which was sustained, and the bill dismissed.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Attala county. lion. J. A. P. Campbell, chancellor. Appellants filed their bill to enforce vendor’s lien on a note given by appellee to Presley for certain lots in the town of Goodman. The note, which was payable to bearer, was transferred by endorsement to Lindsey. Appellee demurred, which was sustained, and the bill dismissed. To reverse this decree this appeal is prosecuted. 1. That Presley had a lien for the purchase-money on the lots sold, is not denied. He transferred the note by endorsement to appellant Lindsey. 2. The assignee of a note may avail…
1Opinion of the CourtPeyton, J.
The appellants filed their bill of complaint in the Chancery Court of Attala county, alleging that on the first day of May, 1867, the said L. C. Presley sold, and conveyed to appellee certain lots or parcels of land in the town of - Goodman, in the county of Holmes, described in the deed of conveyance, for and in consideration of the sum of five hundred dollars, to secure the payment of which sum the appellee executed his promissory note in writing to the said Presley, payable on the first day of January, 1868, and that the- said Presley transferred the same by endorsement to the said Rachel…
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