Sayres v. Green

Opinion by

Judge Elliott:

About 80 acres of Sayres’s land was levied on by an execution in favor of,.Holden’s estate, and purchased by Mary Holden, the *898plaintiff in the execution, who afterward transferred her bid to the appellee, he having bought her interest in the land.

The price bid for the land was $2,176, which was less than two-thirds of its appraised value, but Sayres failing to redeem within the year a deed was made to appellee by the sheriff, and this action was brought for the recovery of the land.

Appellant, Sayres, by his answer set up his discharge in bankruptcy, by which his title…