Polk v. Boggs

The plaintiffs brought this action to restrain a sale by the sheriff of certain lands in satisfaction of a judgment against their grantor. Judgment was rendered in their favor, and the present appeal is by the defendants from an order denying their motion for a new trial, and is presented upon the ground that the evidence was insufficient to justify, certain findings of fact made by the court.

The land involved in the action consists of two parcels of about three hundred and twenty acres called the home place, and another tract of swamp land of about twenty-nine acres, all of which Thomas W.…