Reid v. Heasley

Judhe Marshall

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

The principal question presented in this case is* whether, when a debtor by judgment and execution, being in possession of land, verbally requests and directs the sheriff to levy upon the land and sell it in satisfaction, and the sheriff supposing him to have the legal title, levies and sells accordingly, proclaiming at the time of sale, that the land was given up by the debtor to satisfy the execution under which it was offered, and the debtor being present, did not then, and had not previously dissented or disclosed the nature of his title;…