White v. Cronkhite

Cronkhite sued White and two others for the recovery of real estate and damages for its detention. The right of Cronkhite to recover depended on the validity of a sheriff’s sale and conveyance of the land on executions. Cronkhite, having introduced the judgments, executions, and sheriff’s deed, and proved the payment of the purchase-money and his damages, rested his case. The defendant offered to prove that the sheriff, in advertising the land for sale, did not post up any notices in the township in which the real estate is situated, and that the real estate sold for only one-half of its cash…