Sipes v. Sanders

This is an ejectment suit. One link in the complainants’ chain of title is. a sheriff’s deed set out in the bill. This deed was attacked as insufficient by demurrer. The chancellor overruled the demurrer and .permitted an appeal. The chief criticism of the sheriff’s deed is the contention that it fails to show an execution issued and a levy made on the land conveyed.

It has been declared in a number of decisions of this court tbat tbe deed of a sheriff, to be valid, must show .a proper judgment, execution, levy and sale. Byers v. Wheatley, 62 Tenn. (3 Baxt.), 160; Harlan v. Harlan, 82 Tenn.…