Keen v. McAfee

The executors of McAfee brought their action against Keen, alleging that they as executors had sold him a certain tract of land for the purchase-price of which he had given them four promissory notes for $200 each, payable in successive years; that two of these notes had become due and that the other two were not due. They prayed for a judgment for the amount of the two matured notes, and a special lien on the land; and also prayed that the sheriff sell the land, and, if it brought more than enough to pay off the two notes sued on, that he be directed to hold the surplus, and, on the maturity…