Landreaux v. Foley

The plaintiff claims a tract of land under a purchase made at Sheriff’s sale on the 12th October, 1812. This sale was never followed by p ossession; and the present action is brought against the party in possession, on the 7th June, 1854, or forty-two years afterthe Sheriff’s sale. The District Judge, proceeding upon the doctrine which is elementary in the petitory action that plaintiff must succeed by the strength of his own title and not by the *115weakness of that of his adversary, has rejected the plaintiff’s demand for a nullity apparent upon the face of the Sheriff’s deed, which is the…