Riddle v. Bush
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Cherokee. Tried below before the Hon. R. A. Reeves. The appellees, Edwin W. Bush and Jas. M. J ones, brought this suit of trespass to try title against the appellant, for the recovery of one hundred and eighteen acres of land. The respective titles of the parties are sufficiently'stated in the opinion. The sheriff’s sale at which the plaintiffs purchased was had on the first Tuesday in July, 1856, when the land was struck off to them at one cent per acre.
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Appeal from Cherokee. Tried below before the Hon. R. A. Reeves. The appellees, Edwin W. Bush and Jas. M. J ones, brought this suit of trespass to try title against the appellant, for the recovery of one hundred and eighteen acres of land. The respective titles of the parties are sufficiently'stated in the opinion. The sheriff’s sale at which the plaintiffs purchased was had on the first Tuesday in July, 1856, when the land was struck off to them at one cent per acre. The levy was as follows: “ Levied the within ji. fa. on 180 acres of land out of the Vaughn league, 850 acres out of the Vaughn…
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, J.
This suit was brought by the appellees, Bush and Jones, against the appellant, Riddle, to try title to one hundred and eighteen acres of land, which both parties claim under Johnson and Dewberry, Bush and Jones claiming under a judgment, execution, and sheriff’s sale, and Riddle by a regular chain of conveyance inter partes of an older date than the execution under which the land was sold, but subsequent to the judgment by virtue of which it was issued. The rights of the parties depend upon the validity of the sheriff’s sale, and, if valid, whether the judgment lien upon the land had been…
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