Hart v. Russell

The points in controversy in this case call upon us to consider the statutes relative to judgments and sheriffs’ sales.

Both parties claim title to a certain tract of land, based upon sheriffs’ deeds founded upon different judgments against the original owner of the land. Plaintiff and appellant, Hart, *32bases bis title upon a judgment rendered in the District Court on the 12th of October, 1860, against one Tims, and taken to the Supreme Court by writ of error on the 26th of October, 1860, who gave Gordon, the owner of the land, the surety on the bond, an affirmance of the judgment in the…