Case Name: TAYLOR, ET AL., v. FOOTE'S ADMINISTRATORS
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1883-08
Citations: 1 Wright 356
Docket Number: 
Parties: *TAYLOR, ET AL., v. FOOTE’S ADMINISTRATORS.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases at law and in chancery, decided by the Supreme court of Ohio, during the years 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834.
Volume: 1
Pages: 363–363

Head Matter:
*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.

Opinion:
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.]