Bush v. Kimbrell
Bush v. Kimbrell
Opinion of the Court
J. Bush filed an application for a rule against the sheriff, alleging in part that “your petitioner holds two purchase-money mortgages over certain property, therein described, which said property was in possession of said H. A. Vinson at the time of his death; that said mortgages have never been foreclosed and are past due, and a true copy of both of said mortgages are hereto attached and made a part of this petition as Exhibit CA\” Petitioner further alleged that under certain judicial proceedings said property had been sold by the sheriff, and that, as the proceeds of said sale, the sheriff had in his hands the sum of $300.00, and he praj’ed that the sheriff “show cause . . why said amount should not be paid to petitioner, or a sufficiency thereof to discharge his mortgage liens against the property sold for the purchase-money.” The copies of the ■ notes at
The judge properly denied the application. The notes in this case neither reserved title to the property sold, nor contained a mortgage to secure the purchase-money.
Judgment affirmed.
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