Winfield v. Adams

Cooley, Ch. J:

This is controversy over some corn to which each party claims title under one White; Adams by purchase at a sale on execution, and Winfield by an earlier purchase of the lease of the premises on which the corn had been raised.

I. Adams, who was plaintiff in the .court below, to make out his title, called as a witness the constable who made the sale. It appeared from the constable’s evidence that he levied on the corn August 22, 1873, as a growing crop; *438that it was in three fields, and was sold by him October 17, 1873. The fields were on two different sections, and were some…