Norton v. Walton

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff in error, Silas Norton (herein called plaintiff), brought this suit in July, 1920, to recover an undivided half interest in a described tráct of land in Claiborne parish, La. The claim of the defendants and interveners to the same interest in that land was based on a sheriff’s sale in November, 1911, under an execution issued on a judgment rendered in September, 1911, in a suit brought by J. H. Bridgeman against the plaintiff to foreclose a mortgage given by plaintiff which purported to cover the entire fee in that land. After the rendition of that judgment…