Woodyard's heirs v. Threlkeld

Judge Owsley

delivered the opinion of the court:

This action was brought by the appellants as heirs of Henry Woodyard, deceased, to recover a negro woman and her children, which they charge to them belong, and from them the appellee detains.

The negro woman is admitted to have belonged to the ancestor of the appellants at his decease; but the appellee asserts a right to her under a sale since made by the sheriff of Mason county.

The sale appears to have been made by the sheriff under an order of the county court of Mason, directing him to take the estate of Robert Woodyard, deceased, in his…