Reed v. Carter

This was a bill in chancery filed by Daniel Carter against James Reed, Santuel S. Lansdale, Jesse Shields, and Jonathan Keller. The bill states, among other things, that a tract of land belonging to the complainant, had been fraudulently sold on an execution against him, and purchased by Reed and Lansdale, two of the defendants. ' The object of the bill was to set aside the sale as fraudulent and void.

The material facts are as follows; — Shields was the sheriff of the county, and Keller was his deputy. A fieri facias against the complainant had been placed in the hands of a previous sheriff,…