Adams v. Keiser

Judge Marshall

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

On the trial of this ejectment, which was brought on the demise of Polly Adams, the title of the lessor was deduced through a sheriff’s sale and deed, made under a judgment and execution in favor of George Adams, against Keisers and others, for two thousand five hundred and eighty six dollars and sixty nine cents damages, and $18 311 costs. The sheriff returned, in substance, that he had levied upon a lot of about four acres of land, at the junction of Hill and Main-cross streets, in the city of Lexington; which, after due advertisement &c., he…