Griscom v. Childress

Maurice H. Neumuller and Laura Neumuller, landlords, caused certain culm coal and machinery owned by the Hard Coal Mines, Inc., tenants, to be distrained for rents due and in arrears. J. L. Childress, sheriff of Montgomery county, pursuant to the levy, offered the property for sale at auction on September 27, 1941, in Christiansburg. The property was cried out to W. L. McClung of Salem for $5,100. On the request of the bidder and with the consent of the attorney for the landlords, the sheriff gave McClung a few days in which to pay the amount bid. The sheriff’s repeated demands upon McClung…