William Tyrell's Heirs, in Error v. Andrew Rountree and Others
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR to the circuit court of the United States for the district of West Tennessee. An ejectment was brought by the plaintiffs in error to September term 1830, in the circuit court of West Tennessee, for the recovery of a tract of land, which, in the life time of the ancestor of the plaintiffs, had been taken in 'execution, and sold by the sheriff, to satisfy a debt for which judgment had been obtained in Williamson .county, in the state of {Tennessee.
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ERROR to the circuit court of the United States for the district of West Tennessee. An ejectment was brought by the plaintiffs in error to September term 1830, in the circuit court of West Tennessee, for the recovery of a tract of land, which, in the life time of the ancestor of the plaintiffs, had been taken in 'execution, and sold by the sheriff, to satisfy a debt for which judgment had been obtained in Williamson .county, in the state of {Tennessee. The suit was commenced by attachment, and the land for which this ejectment was instituted, was attached on the 13th of February 1807, the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Marshall
In this case the píáintiffs in error contend that the circuit court misdirected the jury; in consequence of which, the verdict ought to be set aside, the judgment reversed, and a venire facias de novo awarded.
They had brought an ejectment for a tract of land, the title to which was shown to have been in their ancestor; but which the defendants claimed under a conveyance thereof made by the sheriff of Williamson county, in West Tennessee, in pursuance of a sale made by him under a writ of venditioni exponas, issued on a judgment rendered in a suit commenced by attachment.
On the 12 th day of…
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