Parker v. McBee

Citations

• 61 Miss. 134

Syllabus

<p>1. Vendor’s Lien. Waiver. Additional security. Accepting a married woman’s note, signed also by lier husband, to evidence the •purchase-money of land, sold to her in 1871, was not, necessarily, a waiver of the vendor’s lien.</p> <p>2. Same. Assignment of note. Trust. If the vendor held title to the land as trustee, he did not waive the lien by indorsing the note in blank and delivering it to the cestui que trust for collection.</p> <p>3. Same. Attorney at law. Payment. A person buying the land from the vendee on a mistaken statement of the balance, made by an attorney who has the note for collection, cannot discharge the lien by paying this sum while more is legally due.</p>