Logwood v. Robertson
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Limestone Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. H. C. Speake. The bill in this case was filed by W. H. Bobertson, against the appellants, Hettie B. Logwood and John E. Logwood, her husband, and seeks to subject certain lands in the possession of said Hettie B. to a vendor’s lien for an unpaid balance of the purchase-money. Bobertson having died pending the suit, his administrator was made party plaintiff in his stead.
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Appeal from Limestone Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. H. C. Speake. The bill in this case was filed by W. H. Bobertson, against the appellants, Hettie B. Logwood and John E. Logwood, her husband, and seeks to subject certain lands in the possession of said Hettie B. to a vendor’s lien for an unpaid balance of the purchase-money. Bobertson having died pending the suit, his administrator was made party plaintiff in his stead. From the pleadings and proof it appears that on the 22d day of Sept. 1869, Bobertson sold to John E. Logwood certain lands, for one-third cash and the balance in one and…
1Opinion of the CourtManning, J.
Upon an examination of this record we find that the decree appealed from must be affirmed.
Robertson, appellee’s intestate,in the transaction between him and Logwood, gave to the latter a bond to convey when the purchase-money should be all paid. The land was thus, by the express acts of the parties, charged with the payment of the price. And the fact that the title was not then per-*525feet irr Bobertson, tbe vendor, did not hinder the contract from so operating. The interest which a purchaser of- land acquires, who has paid part of the purchase-money and taken a bond for title upon the payment…
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