Cowgill v. Wooden

Wooden sued Cowgill before a justice of the *333peace by notice and motion. The substance of the notice is, that the plaintiff, as sheriff of Owen county, offered certain real estate for sale on execution, and struck off the same to the defendant as the highest bidder; that the defendant having refused to pay the purchase-money, the plaintiff re-sold the land to the highest bidder at the second sale, for 74 dollars and 99 cents less than the first bid; and that the defendant was liable to the plaintiff for that sum. The defendant before the justice pleaded, previously to the trial, six special…