Taylor v. Sample

Suit to partition lands, and for an account of rents and profits. Complaint in two paragraphs. In the first, the appellant alleges, that on the 24th day of July, 1837, Samuel Taylor became the owner in fee simple of the undivided one-half of lot number five, in the original plat of Lafayette; that on the 10th day of March, 1840, William Skinner, sheriff of Tippecanoe county, undertook and pretended to sell the interest of. said Samuel Taylor in said property, to satisfy three several executions in his hands against said Samuel Taylor; and that the defendants pretend to hold the undivided half…