Davis v. Pickett

The bill in this case alleges that, at the April term, 1871, of the Saline circuit court, Martha J. Gaston recovered a judgment in that court, against plaintiff in error, for the sum of $138.14, and for $10.80, costs of suit; that, on the- 29th day of the following May, an execution was issued and placed in the hands of the sheriff, who, on the 12th of the next June, levied on the south-west quarter of the north-east quarter of section 32, township 7 south, range 5 east, which he offered for sale on the 14th of the next July, when F. M. Pickett became the purchaser for $5, and received a…