Plowman v. Riddle
Supreme Court of Alabama
Writ of Error to the Chancery Court, sitting in the 40th District and Northern Division of the State of Alabama. Before the Hon. W. W. Mason.
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Writ of Error to the Chancery Court, sitting in the 40th District and Northern Division of the State of Alabama. Before the Hon. W. W. Mason. The bill is filed in the name of Alexander Riddle, for the use of James C. and Joseph T. Burt, and alledges, that some time in the year 1841,' the complainant, Alexander Riddle, contracted to sell the plaintiffs in error a lot of ground, on which is situate a tan yard, in Mardisville, containing four acres, for the sum of $800 — $500 to be paid in 1842, and $300 in 1843, and the complainant transferred to them a bond for titles held by him from one…
1Opinion of the CourtDargan, J.
This bill is filed for the purpose of enforcing the lien of a vendor, and subjecting the land to the payment of the purchase money.
*171The purchase money is secured by note, executed by the vendees, and which, according to the contract, they had the right to discharge in leather, which, however, they have not done. That the vendees had the right to pay the note in leather, does not affect the lien of the vendor. The note to him is for a sum of money, and the vendees merely had the privilege of paying it in leather. This was for their benefit or convenience, and it cannot be construed into a…
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