Den ex dem. Smith v. Young

The first and principal point in this causo is the just construction of the thirteenth section of the statute entitled “ An act making lands liable to be sold for the payment of debts.”

Both parties claim the farm in question under John Summers, the elder, 'whom they admit to have been seized and in possession on and before the fourth day of August, 1820. On that day an execution issued out of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, of the county of Sussex, on a judgment signed on the 20th of July preceding, in favor of John Kinney and others, against the said John Summers, and David Summers,…