Court Opinion

ID: 8632736
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-24 19:40:10.560741+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:55:49.696751
License: Public Domain

DUVAL, District Judge.
I have carefully examined this case in connection with the questions certified to me for decision. My opinion is that the register was in error, when he held that the mortgage given by the bankrupt, on the five bales of cotton, was a waiver of the prior lien on the land. He should have held that the vendor’s lien upon the three hundred and twenty acres of land, claimed as a homestead by bankrupt, subsisted as against the same, in favor of the creditor, Joseph Werner. It is very clear to me, that this lien was not waived, or in any manner affected, by the mortgage given on the cotton. It is therefore adjudged that the said creditor has a valid, subsisting lien upon the said three hundred and twenty acres of land, and that the opposition made thereto by the bankrupt be overruled. It is further ordered that the assignee of said bankrupt do proceed to sell, according to law, the said tract of three hundred and twenty acres of land, to satisfy the lien existing thereon, in behalf of the creditor, Werner. The clerk will certify this decision to the assignee.