Booth v. Bates

This is a bill in equity by a trustee in bankruptcy to declare void a sale of the real estate of the bankrupt under execution and to cancel the sheriff’s deed as a cloud on the title of the trustee. The respondents are the execution creditors of the bankrupt and purchasers at the sale under their own execution. The bankrupt is also made party respondent, and filed a cross-bill seeking similar relief as to that portion of the lands set apart to him as a homestead exemption in the bankruptcy proceedings.

The registration of the judgment un'der Code, § 7874, was insufficient to create a judgment…