Brannan v. Adams
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal 'from Circuit Court, Mobile County; Saffold Berney, Judge. Bill by Elsie B. Adams against Thomas H. Brannan and John P. McKay for redemption from sale under vendor’s lien, and for a reference to ascertain the amount necessary to effect the redemption. Decree overruling the demurrers to the bill, and respondents appeal.
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Appeal 'from Circuit Court, Mobile County; Saffold Berney, Judge. Bill by Elsie B. Adams against Thomas H. Brannan and John P. McKay for redemption from sale under vendor’s lien, and for a reference to ascertain the amount necessary to effect the redemption. Decree overruling the demurrers to the bill, and respondents appeal. Case made by the bill is: That W. B. McCoy and wife conveyed to David M. Lombard by warranty deed two lots in the city of Mobile, for. a consideration of $300, $150 of which was paid at the time, and the other $150 was to be paid in one year, with interest at the legal…
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
Elsie B. Adams filed this bill against Thomas H. Brannan and John P. McKay, seeking to redeem under the statute certain lots in the city of Mobile as against the foreclosure of a vendor’s lien, expressly reserved, with a power of sale, in a deed from W. B. McCoy'to David M. Lombard. McCoy, according to the bill, had transferred his lien to Alice Hudoff, and she had purchased at her own foreclosure sale. She then conveyed the land to Brannan, reserving a vendor’s lien for a part of the consideration upon which that conveyance was made, and afterwards transferred her lien to McKay. In the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Powers v. AndrewsSupreme Court of Alabama · 1887
- McDuffie v. Lynchburg Shoe Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1912
- Hall v. Mobile & Montgomery Railway Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1877
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- Commercial Real Estate & Building Ass'n v. ParkerSupreme Court of Alabama · 1887
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