Johnson v. Dooly

Hall, Justice.

This bill in equity was brought to set aside a conveyance of land sold at sheriff’s sale. Among the reasons alleged for asking that this sale be set aside, and the parties interested be reinstated to their respective rights as they existed at the time the sale was made, are that the same was not advertised for four weeks or twenty-eight days, as required by law ; that the purchaser at the sale, who also controlled the fi. fa. under which it was made, sustained certain confidential relations to the complainant of which he might have taken advantage ; that the price paid for the…