Stackhouse v. Zuntz

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Bermudez, C. J.

This is an action to annul sheriffs’ sales of two plantations, in the possession of defendants as testamentary heirs of the original adjudicateo, and to operate a partition of the same by licitation.

The main ground of attack is, that the writs under which the plantations were seized, advertised and adjudicated, are absolute nullities; in consequence of which no title was divested and passed.

The writ, which issued under a decree for executory process against one of the plantations and by virtue of which the property was adjudicated, is…