Den ex dem. Brookfield v. Morse

The Chief Justice

delivered the opinion of the court.

The lessors.of the plaintiff claimed to recover the premises in question in this action of ejectment, by virtue .of a sale and conveyance made to him by the sheriff of the county of Essex. Upon the trial, he gave in evidence a deed from Joseph T. Baldwin, sheriff of that county, bearing date ou the first day of September, A. D. 1820, which recites that in the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Essex, iu the term of January, 1818, Matthias Williamson obtained judgment against Lewis Tooker, for the sum of $597.95 for the damages he had…