Griffin v. Cotten

Griffin alleges that on or about the 16th of October, 1840, he purchased at a sheriff’s sale, made under an order of seizure and sale in his own name, against Valentine F. Cotten, several tracts of land/among which was one section No. 26, in township 4, north, range 2, west, in the Opelousas land district. That when he went to take possession of said land, he was forcibly resisted by the said Valentine Cotten, and his brother Elijah B. Cotten; he then called on the sheriff who made the sale, to put him in peaceable possession, which the sheriff was about to do, when Elijah B. Cotten got out a…