Winfrey v. Work

This is a suit on a note for $266.66, executed by defendants to plaintiff as sheriff of Carroll county. It was given for a part of the purchase money for a tract of land sold by said sheriff' in partition proceedings in the probate court of said county. The sale occurred on the 29th day of March, 1877, the date of the note. The answer' of defendants, on motion stricken out as not containing facts constituting a defense to the suit, alleged that while said partition proceedings were pending, the adult parties and the guardian of the minor parties to said suit leased said premises for the term…