Marcum v. Thompson

Opinion op the Court by

Judge McCandless

Reversing.

W. A. Marcum entered motion in Bell circuit court to vacate the appraisement and sale of certain lands owned by him, which had been sold at execution sale by the sheriff of the county, on the grounds: (1) By mistake the appraisers fixed an inadequate value upon .the lands; (2) one of the tracts was covered by a vendor’s lien; (3) that there were six tracts of land in the sale, all :of which were sold in a body as a whole. Simultaneously with this motion the purchaser, J. A. Thompson, entered motion for a writ of possession of the lands sold.…