Turner v. Adams
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to Sixth District Court. I. Until Turner and Knight proceed to sell the land in ques tion under their judgment in attachment, they are in no condition to aslc that the deed of Adams, made by the sheriff in 1862, be set aside. H. The lien of an attachment writ is not such an interest in land as to enable the plaintiffs in the proceedings to attach a legal title. III.
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Error to Sixth District Court. I. Until Turner and Knight proceed to sell the land in ques tion under their judgment in attachment, they are in no condition to aslc that the deed of Adams, made by the sheriff in 1862, be set aside. H. The lien of an attachment writ is not such an interest in land as to enable the plaintiffs in the proceedings to attach a legal title. III. The mere statement of Adams ta the sheriff, that he would pay off the judgment against Buchanan and himself, or that he would not sell at that term of the court, constitutes no fraudulent representation. 1. Because it was…
1Opinion of the Court
Wa&NER, Judge,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The allegations in the petition are that on the 23 d of March, 1860, a judgment was rendered in the Lincoln County Circuit Court in favor ,of Milroy and Bacon against defendant Adams, T. G-. Buchanan, and others, for $259.05; that Buchanan being largely indebted, writs of attachment, at the suit of plaintiffs and other creditors, were placed in the sheriff’s hands on the first of February, 1862, and were levied on a tract of land containing about 233^ acres, and worth at least $3,000; that in September, 1863, judgments were rendered in said…
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