Lundy v. Pierson

Willie, Chief Justice.

Appellees sued Lundy and Carpenter to recover a league of land, claiming the same under title' derived from Daniel Daily, who conveyed to E. J. Brown, and the latter conveyed to appellee, J. G. W. Pierson. It was proved that this conveyance was in trust for the wife of Pierson, the other- appellee in this cause. Appellants claimed the land under-purchase at sheriff’s sale made by virtue of an execution issued out of the county court of Wise county. Appellant Carpenter, in 1878, recovered a judgment against E. J. Brown, in said county court, but Brown, having appealed,…