Hogue v. Corbit

This is ejectment for eighty acres of land, prosecuted in the Union circuit court, by Emma E. Corbit, appellee, against L. P. Hogue, appellant. A trial resulted in judgment for the former, and from that judgment this appeal was taken.

The parties claim from a common source of title—one Edwin W. Thornton. On November 15, 1887, appellee sued out of said circuit court a writ of attachment against the real and personal estate of said Thornton, returnable to the March term, 1888, of said court. Upon the same day the sheriff levied the writ upon the land in controversy, and filed a certificate of…