Deakins v. Rex

The appellee filed his petition, in the Circuit Court for Grarrett County, for the writ of habere facials to put him in possession of certain land alleged to have been bought by him at sheriff’s sale. Ho question arises on the proceedings for the writ. They are conceded to be regular. The defence interposed rests on a claim of paramount title and alleged irregularities in the executions and proceedings under them, through which the appellee purchased.

Maria L. Deakins, in her separate answer, only claims title to eight acres of the property sold to the petitioner; and her superior right being…