Hite v. Reeve
Hite v. Reeve
Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Although Mrs. Sutherland (now Mrs. Renter) and her children, Elizabeth and Margaret, took the estate conveyed in trust for them to Henry Knipp, subject to existing liens, their right to so much of it as might be left after these liens should be discharged was perfect and absolute.
It does not appear why the entire property was sold at the suit of the lien holders, but if the sale was regular and proper, then they
Their lien still subsists and Hill holds subject thereto. It results, therefore, that he can not make to* Reeve a good title. The chancellor properly refused to* compel the latter to accept an imperfect one.
Hightower v. Smith, 5 J. J. Marshall 542; Barnett v. Higgins, 4 Dana 565.
Judgment affirmed.
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