Burks v. Watson

Roberts, Chief Justice.

The plaintiffs in error being in possession of the land upon which a vendor’s lien was sought to be enforced, in the suit of Watson, defendant in error, against Hopkins and Hopkins, on a draft given by them in the purchase of the land from Taylor, the assignor of Watson, *111and being on that account properly joined as defendants in the suit with Hopkins and Hopkins, through whom they derived title to the land by purchase, had a right in said suit to show that the land in their possession was not liable to the lien sought to be enforced against it.

This they might do in two…