Page v. Hughes' Heirs

delivered tlie opinion of the Court.

Under a decree of the Louisville Chancery Court, a lot in Louisville was sold for- paymént of the purchase money, with a reservation of a lien, ánd J. D. Southard,' the reported purchaser, with- D. R. Southard and C. A. Page as his sureties, executed their bonds for the purchase money; according to • the. instalments directed by the decree. In January, 1847, the bond .for the first instalment being due and'unpaid, a rule was made and served upon the obligors to show cause why they should not pay it, and on their failure to appear, an attachment was awarded…