Way v. Patty

Smith, J. —

This was a suit in chancery, commenced in the Wayne Circuit Court, by Seth Way against Manlove Cranor, Thomas Cranor, and Mark Patty, to enforce an alleged lien upon certain real estate sold by the plaintiff.

The bill charges that, on the 25th of March, 1839, the plaintiff sold a certain farm, therein described, to Manlove Cranor and Thomas Cranor, and conveyed the same to Manlove to be held in trust for himself and Tlwmas, his co-purchaser. That the consideration of the sale was the sum of 3,300 dollars, and the payment of a mortgage then on the land for 500 dollars. That 1,300…