Maupin v. Emmons

The plaintiffs brought their action for the possession of 320 acres of land owned and occupied by defendants, and relied upon a sale and purchase by them upon execution against one Ham-mack, the grantor of defendant Emeline Emmons. The execution sale was on the 20th of April, 1864, and the sheriff’s deed was made on the 20th of September following, and placed on record the 29th. Hammack, the execution debtor, had sold the property and conveyed the same to Emeline Emmons, wife of the other defendant, on the 16th of November, 1858, and received a full consideration therefor. But the purchasers…