Peers

The court below adjudged that defendant Thomas McLaughlin is indebted to the plaintiffs in the sum of $1,615.24, and that said indebtedness is a lien upon the land described in the complaint, and directed that it be sold to satisfy said lien. All of the defendants appeal from this judgment. There is no bill of exceptions in the record. The findings show the following facts: The defendants John Thomas Edward McLaughlin and Margaret McLaughlin are minor chil *296 dren of. the defendant Thomas McLaughlin. In March, 1884, the plaintiffs and the defendant Thomas McLaughlin made an agreement, the plaintiffs to convey to said Thomas McLaughlin and his said minor children the land described in the complaint for the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars, and at the same time the defendant Thomas McLaughlin paid to plaintiffs on account of said purchase, the sum of thirteen hundred dollars, and the balance of twelve hundred dollars was to be paid October 1, 1884. On October 10th following, this balance was still unpaid, and it was then agreed between plaintiffs and the defendant Thomas McLaughlin, “ for himself and his said children.....that plaintiffs should execute a deed .... of said…