25 Miss. 103 | Miss. | 1852
delivered the opinion of the court.
The complainant sold to Robert Cook a certain tract of land in Holmes county, the title to which was at the time in one Sargeant, who, at the instance of complainant, conveyed the land to Cook.
After this conveyance, an "execution against Cook was levied on the land by the sheriff of Plolmes county, who sold the same at public sale to Holloway.
The bill was filed to enforce the vendor’s lien against the land for the unpaid purchase-money. Holloway insists that he
There is nothing in the case now before us to take it out of the operation of this" rule, and the decree must, therefore, be affirmed.