Cooper v. Bacon

The plaintiff in the court below entered into a contract with the defendant for the sale of certain real estate in the city of Savannah for the sum of $4,000. The defendant refused to consummate the sale, on the ground that the plaintiff did not have a good title to the land, for the.alleged reason that the plaintiff had derived his title through a deed from one Horace Bivers, who purchased the property at a sheriff’s sale under a judgment declaring a special lien thereon, rendered in the city court of Savannah in a suit based on an unrecorded deed to secure a debt; and that at that time…