Sanders v. Hamilton

Judge Ewing

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

An execution- was issued from the clerk’s office of the? Owen Circuit Court, in favor of Hamilton, against the estate of Zachariah Johnson, deceased, which was placed in the hands of Wright, a deputy sheriff, and was levied upon a negro woman slave by the name of Marsha, who was sold, and the plaintiff Sanders became the purchaser, at the price of two hundred and eighty dollars. Afterwards, an action of detinue was brought against Sanders by one William Sale, and said slave was recovered from him by paramount and superior title. And this suit was…