Doswell v. Thompson

The principal actors in this litigation are C. C. H. Thompson and Cosby Doswell, both colored, and the *779controversy grows out of a contract between those parties authorizing a sale by the plaintiff of a farm in Nottoway county containing 200 acres belonging to defendant Thompson, who at the time the petition for an attachment was filed was a nonresident of the State, the case being matured by order of publication.

On August 1, 1921, the sheriff of Nottoway county, by virtue of an attachment in his hands, levied on the real estate of the defendant known as the “Woodson tract” to satisfy the…