Case ID: ohio-ch_1/html/0356-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Bv the Court.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

TAYLOR, ET AL. v. FOOTE’S ADMINISTRATORS.
    Vender’s lien — cannot be assigned.
    Notes given for the purchase money of land, cannot be enforced as a lien upon the land, in the hands of an assignee.
    Liens for the purchase money, are in the vender only, and cannot be assigned.
    Bill in Chancery, to enforce a lien upon land sold for the payment of notes, which were transferred by the vender to the complainant, in payment of a debt. The notes were not negotiable.
    
      Case, for the complainants.
    
      S. J. Andrews, contra.
   Bv the Court.

These notes, though not negotiable at law, so as to confer upon the assignee a right to sue in his own name, are held in equity as negotiated. The lien for the purchase money is a right of the vender, and cannot pass into other hands as an incident to the obligations, or the land, if conveyed by the «vender; Jackman v. Hallock, 1 O. R. 319; and Tiernan v. Beam, 2 O. R. 383, are conclusive on this point; so is Williams v. Roberts, 5 O. R. 35.

The bill is dismissed.