Aldridge v. Dunn

— This was a bill in chancery filed in July, 1842, by the appellant, to enforce an equitable lien on real estate in Posey county, for unpaid purchase-money. The material facts are as follows :

In January, 1841, the complainant sold and conveyed to Dunn, one of the defendants, a certain tract of land for 550 dollars, received at the time 400 dollars of the purchase-money, and took the purchaser’s promissory note for the remaining 150 dollars, payable in July following. Something was said at the time of the sale about the buyer’s giving a mortgage, but a person present observed that the buyer…