Summerhill v. Hanner

Gaines, Associate Justice.—This

is an appeal from a judgment in the court below in which the plaintiffs recovered of the defendants the tract of land in controversy. In the year 1858 JamesPark, of Williamson County, Tennessee (under whom appellees claim), sold the land to appellants’ grantor, Horace Summerhill, for the sum of 810,000, to be paid in three annual installments to fall due respectively in one, two, and three years after date. The vendor executed to Summerhill a deed, but expressly reserved in it a lien upon the land as a security for the payment of the purchase money, for which…