Sherry v. Brown

-In this case, Brown recovered judgment against Sherry, before a justice’s court, upon which execution was issued, and, in default of personal property, the process was levied by the constable upon certain real estate claimed by Sherry as a homestead, and a return thereof made to the justice, who transmitted all the papers in the case to the ensuing term of the Circuit Court of Madison county, as required by the statute. — Code, 1876, § 3638. Upon the cause coming to be heard, the court, on the motion of the plaintiff, directed a sale of the land for the satisfaction of the judgment. The…