James v. Burbridge

Brannon, Judge:

A. A. James brought a chancery suit in the Circuit Court of Doddridge county, alleging in his bill that on April 18, 1874, Jonathan Parks and wife by deed conveyed to John P. Burbridge a tract of forty seven and one half acres of land at the price of $650.00, of which $175.00 was cash, $75.00 was payable in one year, and the residue in four equal yearly payments, for which deferred payments Burbridge executed writings obligatory, in the deed called “notes,” to Samuel C. Parks, for the payment of which a lien was reserved in said deed; that since the execution of said deed,…