Ballard v. Scruggs

This is an ejectment hill to recover possession of two undivided one-ninth interests in a tract of six hundred acres of land.

Complainants claim to have acquired the title of the defendants by virtue of judgments, levy, and sale, and exhibit a Sheriff’s deed for the intei'ests they seek to recover.

Many objections have been urged to the prov ceedings under which complainants claim, only one of which need be determined.

T. and E. B. Scruggs owned each a one-ninth interest in the lands in controversy. Judgments were rendered against them, and executions levied upon the interest of each as tenants…