Dobbins v. Wilson

Both parties claim the title to the premises in controversy that was in Thomas S. Dobbins, as will appear from the facts to be hereafter stated. In May, 1874, Clark W. Upton, assignee, recovered a judgment in the United States District Court against Richard Gregg and Thomas S. Dobbins. That judgment, it seems, was afterward affirmed in the Supreme Court of the United States. At an execution sale under that judgment Frank M. Wilson and George Wilson purchased the property, and received from the marshal making the sale the usual certificate of purchase, which would entitle them to a deed in…