Hayden v. Dunlap

*216OPINION of the Court, by

Ch. J. Boyle.

This was an ejectment. On the trial, the plaintiff, to prove his title, produced in evidtnce a regular chain of conveyances from the patentee of the commonwealth to the defendant Hayden, and the record of a judgment and execution against him, together with a deed from the sheriff to the plaintiff for the land in controversy, purporting to be made to him as the purchaser at the sale under the execution. To avoid the conveyance from the sheriff to the plaintiff, the defendants offered to prove that the sheriff did not advertise the sale according to law, nor…