Battle v. Braswell

Henry Battle brought suit for himself, and as next friend for his minor sister Lucy Battle, against Green H. Braswell and Jack Hancock, sheriff, for the purpose of enjoining the latter from ousting the petitioners from a certain tract of land which Braswell had bought at sheriff’s sale under a fi. fa. issued upon a judgment in a justice’s court against the petitioner Henry Battle, and for the further purpose of canceling a deed made by the sheriff to Braswell, which was alleged to be a cloud upon petitioner’s title. The main ground upon which the petition was based was that the judgment was…