Case ID: wright_1/html/0363-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

*TAYLOR, ET AL., v. FOOTE’S ADMINISTRATORS.
    Vendor’s lien — cannot he assigned.
    Notes given for the purchase money of land, cannot he enforced as a lien upon the land, in the hands of an assignee.
    Liens for the purchase money, are m the vendor only, and cannot he assigned.
    Bill in chancery, to enforce a lien upon land sold for the payment of notes, which were transferred by the vendor to the complainant, in payment of a debt. The notes were not negotiable.
    
      Case for the complainants.
    
      S. J. Andrews contra.
   BY 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 vendor, and cannot pass into other hands as an incident to the obligation, or the land, if conveyed by the vendor; Jackman v. Hallock, 1 O. 319; and Tiernan v. Beane, 2 O. 383, are conclusive on this point; so is Williams v. Roberts, 5 O. 35.

The bill is dismissed.

[Vendor’s lien is valid without a decree; Martin v. Johnson, 7 O. 1st pt. 225, 226.]