Case ID: ind_19/html/0151-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Perkins, J.\n     \n      Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Mattix v. Weand and Others.
    The taking of a mortgage to secure the payment of purchase money, is an abandonment of the vendor’s equitable lien for the same.
    The equitable lien for purchase money, once fairly and voluntarily abandoned, is lost forever.
    The surrender of a mortgage, voluntarily, on a fair contract, for other security, is an abandonment of the same, and does not revive the equitable lien.
    APPEAL from the Clinton Circuit Court.
   Perkins, J.

Samuel Mattix owned a piece of real estate, and sold it to Charles Wolf. He took a mortgage for unpaid purchase money. That act was an abandonment of the vendor’s equitable lien. Adams’ Eq., Am. ed., p. 341, note. Williams on Real Prop., Am. ed., p. 362, note. Harris v. Harlan, 14 Ind., p. 439.

J. N. Sims, for the appellant.

P. P. Davidson, J. H. McDonald, and A. L. Boache, for the appellees.

An equitable lien for purchase money, once abandoned, fairly and voluntarily, is abandoned forever.

Subsequently, Mattix gave up and satisfied his mortgage, taking the individual note of one Weand, in lieu of it, as his security for his money. He thereby relinquished his mortgage lien, the surrender of the mortgage having been voluntary, upon a fair contract.

This suit was instituted by Mattix, on the hypothesis that he could fall back upon a vendor’s lien, and for the enforcement of such a lien, in this case.

The Court below rightly held that it would not lie.

Per Curiam.

The judgment is affirmed, with costs.