Wertz v. Clay

This is a suit brought by C. R. Wertz to set aside a sale made by C. S. McNulty, trustee, to W. B. Clay, and to redeem the lands so sold and bought. For four years and through 1,200 pages of a printed record it has dragged its slow length along. Casually considered, the issues appear intricate and difficult; as a matter of fact they are neither:

On May 22, 1917, C. R. Wertz was the owner of three tracts of land in Roanoke county. One contained 123 % acres, another fifty-three acres. These adjoined the corporate limits of Roanoke. The third, a twenty-seven and one-half acre tract, was some…