Woolen v. Rockafeller

Action by Ephraim K. Rockafeller, describing himself as the executor of the last will of Eli Ferguson, ■deceased, against James H. Woolen, to recover the possession •of, and to quiet his title to, a sixteen-acre tract of land. The complaint was in two paragraphs. The first was in the common form for the recovery of the possession of real estate. 'The second averred that the plaintiff had become the owner •of the land in controversy by purchase at a sheriff’s sale upon a decree of foreclosure of a mortgage upon it, but that the defendant claimed title to said land under a deed exe•cuted to him…