Lane v. Howard

In this case Howard, the defendant in error, instituted suit in the District Court, against Lane, on a promissory note for the sum of eighty dollars. The petition alleged that the sum due upon the note was a part of the purchase money of certain lots described in the petition, which lots were alleged to be of the value of two hundred dollars. The prayer of the *8petition was, that the vendor’s lien upon the lots (which was asserted in the petition) might be established, and the lots sold in satisfaction of the amount due upon the note. The judgment was in accordance with the prayer of the…