Sharp v. McColm

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burch, J.:

The question for decision is whether the proceedings upon which a sheriff’s deed is based are void, and therefore open to collateral attack. The proceedings in question were brought in the district court of Ford county for the foreclosure of a mortgage given by Newton D. Wall and Jemima Wall to the Howard 'State Bank, of Howard, Kan., for $700, dated August 1, 1889, acknowledged August 17, 1889, and covering the east half of the northwest quarter and the east half of the southwest quarter of section nineteen, in township twenty-one south, of…