Ratliff v. Childers

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Settle

Affirming.

By this action in equity instituted in the Pike circuit court, the appellant, W. E. Batliff, sought to recover of the appellees, A. "W. Childers and Fon Bodgers, a small tract of land in Pike county, of which he claimed to be the owner, upon the ground that the title claimed by them is void because obtained under a void sale and judgment of tbe Pike circuit court in a suit of John A. Bartley v. Henry Batliff and others, in which the appellant, though made a defendant to the action, had never been summoned or otherwise brought before the…