Collins v. Tweedale

DAVIS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court dismissing the bill of complaint in which it was sought to impress a vendor’s lien upon certain real estate described therein.

The allegations in the bill tend to show that on September 5, 1925, Kate B. Collins and Hugh Collins, her husband, sold a certain piece of real estate to Everett E. Marshall and Raymond A. Van Hook, who, with their wives joining, executed a bond for $27,000 which was secured by a purchase-money mortgage on the real estate to Hugh Collins as part consideration for the property. On May 28, 1929,…