Massey v. Steeg

The plaintiffs allege that two judgments were respectively facias were issued and partially executed by the seizure and advertisement of his real estate for sale by the Sheriff; but that the sale thus announced could not be effected, in consequence of a legal mortgage on the property seized established in favor of Steeg's minor children by a judgment of the court below, rendered on the 8th of May, 1854, whereby said property, including certain movables, was adjudicated to said Steeg as property belonging to the community which had existed between him and his late wife, Clvi'istina Merman,…