Amonett v. Amis

This suit is brought to recover two tracts of land in the possession of the defendants, and forming a part of the plantation cultivated by them. Both parties claim through Lewis A. Collier.

The defendants claim in virtue of two Sheriff sales made to their ancestor and author at the suits of Milke v. Collier and Williams v. Collier, prior to the acquisition by the plaintiff’s testator of whatever title he held.

By the Sheriff’s sale at the suit of Milite, the defendants’ ancestor and author *226¿ad adjudicated to them about two thousand acres of land, by a description which embraces the land in…