Foster v. Hall

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court setting aside and vacating a sale of lands made by the sheriff upon an execution. The sale was made on the 21st day of September, 1876. The motion to set aside and vacate *569the sale was made on tbe -27th. day of May, 1878, for certain irregularities, merely, one of which was-that the lands were not first offered in parcels.

A motion to set aside a sale on execution must be made in a reasonable time after the sale, or it will not be entertained; and we think that a delay of over twenty months after the sale, and near the expiration of the time…