Woodward v. People's National Bank

Plaintiff in error was plaintiff below. The suit was brought to restrain the People’s National Bank, a judgment creditor, and Leonard Jackson, the sheriff of El Paso county, from selling certain lands of the plaintiff in El Paso county upon execution in favor of the bank. The land in question was an unoccupied portion of the public domain, until about the 18th day of October, 1890, when plaintiff settled upon it and made a filing under the pre-emption laws of the United *370States, and since such date he has been residing upon it with his family. On May 14,1891, he made proof of rights as…