Selna

Action to recover four hundred and twenty dollars and have same declared a lien upon certain real estate. Judgment for defendants. Appeal from the judgment on the judgment roll. It appears from the findings that on August 30, *359 1894, the plaintiff sold and conveyed by deed of grant the premises described in the complaint to one Patrick Selna, for the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, all of which amount had been paid prior to August 3, 1897, except the sum of five hundred dollars, and on said last-named date said Patrick Selna executed and delivered to plaintiff his promissory note for said balance of five hundred dollars. On this note there was paid on the twenty-seventh day of December, 1897, the sum of eighty dollars. On January 15, 1898, the said Patrick Selna died intestate, being at the time of his death the owner of the said real estate, leaving a balance of four hundred and twenty dollars due and owing to plaintiff on said promissory note, and leaving surviving him his wife, Pearl E. Selna, one of the defendants herein. February 4, 1898, the plaintiff was duly appointed administrator of the estate of said Patrick Selna, deceased, qualified, and letters of administration…