Leach v. Rogers
Leach v. Rogers
Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
delivering the opinion.
The plaintiff had purchased the brick yard place of the -defendant, and paid him for it in work, and the defendant, more than once agreed to make a title to one of- the witnesses, Tredaway, to whom the plaintiff had exchanged the brickyard place for other land. The value of the land for which it was exchanged was four hundred and twenty dollars. The price paid for the brick yard place in work* was three hundred and fifty dollars. The plaintiff removed from the county, and the land which he had received in exchange for the brick yard place, was attached as his property and sold by the sheriff. Tredaway, not having been able to obtain from Rogers a title to the brick yard property, which he acknowledged the plaintiff had paid him for, gave notice at the sheriff’s sale.that he had a vendor’s lien of four hundred and twenty dollars, on the land. It was sold subject to this lien, and the defendant, Rogers, bought it at the price of $103. The lien claimed by Tredaway, resulted from the refusal of the defendant, Rogers, to execute the title to Tredaway, for the brick yard place. If he had executed that title, there would have been no lien, and if there had been no lien, there could have been no notice of a lien at the sheriff’s
"We think the cause ought to have gone to the jury. It is clear the account had never been paid. The judgment of the court bdlow must be reversed.
Judgment reversed.
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