State ex rel. Polk County v. West

One James Miles owned certain laud *230in Polk county. He mortgaged the land to secure debts to the amount of about $-3,000, due the school fund of the county. The county foreclosed its mortgages, and the land brought some $1,400, the deed of the sheriff being made to one J. B. Burros, now deceased, who, at the time of the sale, was clerk of the county court. Burros, in a short time, re-sold the land for $2,500.

The object sought in the present proceeding, an equitable one, is to recover from his legal representatives the amount of $1,200, alleged to have been fraudulently realized by Burros, by…