Weakley v. Cockrill

The Chancellor:

— The principal question raised by the «demurrer in this case has been discussed with marked ability by the counsel on both sides. That question is, whether a debtor’s right to redeem his land, within two years after sale by execution, can be subjected, by bill in this court, to the satisfaction of the residue of the judgment under the execution on which the legal interest of the debtor in the land had been sold, and bid in by the judgment creditor. The facts are that the complainant, having .a judgment for several thousand dollars against the defendant, causes execution to…