Williams v. Clark

The plaintiff in this case claims a tract of land in virtue of an adjudication made on the 5th July, 1851, at a Sheriff’s sale, under an execution issued 'in the case of the present plaintiff against John W. Rountree. The petition sets forth that, on the 15th Ootdber, I860, Avarida Ansley, wife of John W. Rountree, acting for herself, and pretending to act as attorney in fact for her said husband, transferred to the defendant the land in controversy) which sale, the petitioner avers, is fraudulent, and made without authority.

The plaintiff avers that the. defendant, Clark, took possession of…