Lehman, Durr & Co. v. Collins

The appellants, as judgment creditors-of William T. Shook, filed the original bill in this cause to compel a redemption and conveyance to them of certain real estate, situate in the town of Gadsden, which had been sold under a-power in a mortgage executed to Shook, and of which the respondent, now appellee, Conley, had become the purchaser. The bill avers that Conley “ pretends to have contracted with one Collins, who resides in the State of North Carolina, and whose Christian name is unknown to your orators, and can not *129be ascertained by them by diligent inquiry, for the sale of the original…