Linthicum v. Tapscott

The appellants filed a bill to foreclose a vendor’s lien for the purchase money for certain lands for which a note had been given.

Part of the appellees answered, setting up no other defense than that the claim had not been presented to the administrator of the vendee within two years from the grant of his letters. Appellants demurred to the answer. The court overruled the demurrer, and dismissed the complaint for want of equity.

The only question presented for consideration by the record is, whether a proceeding to enforce a vendor’s lien is barred by the statute of nonclaim. Under our…