Moore v. Hampton

The' judgment of the court was pronounced by

Rost, J.

This is a petitory action; The plaintiff claims as universal legatee of her first husband, Wm. Donaldson, the undivided half of a tract of land, formerly held in common between the said Donaldson and John W. Scott. The defendants allege that the title of Donaldson was divested by a sheriff’s sale, as far back as the 10th of November; 1815, being thirty years save a day previous to the institution of this suit. They further,allege that their ancestor, Wade Hampton, acquired the said property by authentic act, from Carlos De Armas, the…