Walden v. Canfield

The plaintiff sets up title to the property in dispute under a sheriff’s deed, from which it appears that on the 11th of November, 1837, he became the purchaser at a sheriff’s sale of the right, title, and interest of the heirs of Edward Livingston in and to the premises in controversy, and in some other property. The sale was made by virtue of a pluries ji. fa., issued at the suit of Mitchell and Lemoyne against Edward Livingston, for the price of seventeen hundred dollars cash.

The defendants, who are in possession of the premises, and have been so, by themselves and their warrantors, since…