Hummer v. Schott
Hummer v. Schott
Opinion of the Court
delivered, the opinion of this Court:
The appellee filed an original and supplemental hill against the appellants, in the Superior Court of Baltimore City, to enforce a vendor’s lien, on a certain house and lot sold by the appellee to the appellant Hummer, and mortgaged by the latter to the Germania Building Association. The hills allege the sale of the property on the 6th of October 1859, to the appellant Hammer, for the sum of $1200, $400 of which was paid in hand, the execution of a note by the purchaser, for the residue of the purchase money, with the endorsement of William H. Mayer thereon, the mortgage of the property by Hummer to the Germania Association, and the non-payment of the note: and prays a decree for the sale of the property to pay the purchase money.
The answer of the Germania Building Association admits the mortgage, excepts to the sufficiency of the allegations in the bills, and professing ignorance of the other facts, demands proof. The answer of the appellant Hummer, after admitting the sale and execution of the note,
We think the evidence sustains the allegations of the defendant Hummer’s answer, that the agreement of sale was, that the appellee should receive the cash payment and the balance as soon as he could raise it from the Building Association by mortgage. To enable the appellant Hummer to do which the appellee agreed to and did convey the property, taking in lieu of his lien the note of the appellant with William H. Mayer as surety or endorser.
Whether Mayer’s relation to the note was that of endorsor, co-promisor or guarantor, is in our judgment im
For these reasons the decree below will be reversed and bill dismissed with costs.
Decree reversed and bill dismissed with costs.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- Henry Hummer and The Germania Building Association v. Francis Schott
- Status
- Published