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2 Ohio Cir. Dec. 671

Nelson v. Kennedy

Guernsey Circuit Court

Decided June 15, 1890

Guernsey Circuit Court · decided 1890-06-15

The plaintiff brought her action below to marshall liens upon real estate of James Kennedy, she being a judgment creditor of James Kennedy, and the other defendants being various judgment creditors and mortgagees, and one W. N. Leeper, who claimed a vendor’s lien. In the .common pleas Leeper filed a cross-petition with which issue was joined by other lienholders, a trial, was had, judgment went against Leeper, and he appealed his branch of the case.

Decided 1890-06-15

Woodbury, J.

¶1It is not necessary to state in detail the state of the case below, and the character of all the issues made in it. The defendant Leeper filed his cross-petition in the common pleas, pleading the fact of a sale by him 'to James Kennedy of certair lands, the price thereof, the terms of sale, the fact that a note was given by Kennedy for part of the purchase-money which was not due and had not been paid, and asking that his vendor’s lien be protected out of the proceeds of a sale. He did not ask for a personal judgment, and, as has been said, his note was not then due and judgment could not have been taken on it. He applies for leave to file a supplemental cross-petition setting up the maturity of the note, and asking a personal judgment as against Kennedy. If Leeper had set up these facts in the court below, if he could have set them up, and have asked a personal judgment in that court, no appeal could have been allowed to this court, for the defendant to the cross-petition would have been entitled to a jury trial upon it. Section 5021 of the Code provides:

“In an action to foreclose a mortgage given to secure the payment of money, or to enforce a specific lien for money, the plaintiff may also ask in his petition a judgment for the money claimed to be due; and such proceedings shall be had, and judgment rendered thereon, as in a civil action for the recovery of money only.’’

¶2So that, if in these classes of cases a party sets up a specific lien, and asks a personal judgment, the issue is properly triable to a jury, and no appeal would be allowed. Now the defendant, Leeper, is in this court because of his appeal of the branch of the case in which he was interested;'and, as he would not have been allowed to appeal had he made such an amendment, or filed such a supplemental pleading below, we think he ought not to be allowed to do so upon appeal to this court.

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