90 Mo. App. 514 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1901
The facts of this controversy are stated' with substantial fullness in the report of the former decision of it, to which reference is made. Lawson v. Spencer, 81 Mo. App. 169. Some additional testimony was introduced at the second trial by the plaintiff as to remarks made by Stakely and Dobbins, tending to prove, as appellant thinks, that they did not claim a vendor’s lien to secure the notes made to the former by William C. Cundiff and John C. Spencer, for part of the purchase price of the'land involved in the litigation, which notes Stakely assigned to Dobbins, who enforced the lien by suit.
The new testimony is too indefinite and unsatisfactory to justify us in rejecting the finding of the trial court that the lien was retained and outstanding in full force at the date the deed of trust was executed which this suit is to foreclose.
The other judgment was reversed with a command to re-try the case and enter a decree in accordance with the opinion, which was done, and must, therefore, stand. State ex rel. v. Edwards, 144 Mo. 467-470; Tourville v. Wabash R’y, 148 Mo. 614-623; Riley v. Sherwood, 155 Mo. 37. Without deciding that in no conceivable case would we depart from the first opinion on a subsequent appeal, we do decide that the