Crawford v. Williams

Hall, Justice.

This is a contest between a party to whom land was conveyed by a defendant in execution, over money in the hands of the sheriff, arising from the sale of the land under judgments older than the conveyance, and which had been satisfied by the sale, and a party who held claims in judgment junior in date to such conveyance. The court awarded the money to the younger judgments, after the satisfaction of the older liens, and to this decision exception was taken by the defendant’s feoffee, who was the movant in the rule against the sheriff. No issue wasmade as to the Iona fides of the…