Raines v. Pile

Complainant filed his original bill in the Chancery Court to secure possession of certain lands in Fentress County which were alleged to have been purchased by him at an execution sale made by the sheriff of said county. The defendants answered, in which denial is made that complainant had any interest in the lands in question.

At the trial, which was upon oral testimony, complainant claimed to have had a valid judgment against Lucinda Pile in the Supreme Court, that an execution issued upon said judgment, and at the sale he became the purchaser. He exhibited a sheriff's deed (signed by…