Riley v. Wiley

Judge Marshall

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

Riley, having sold two small parcels of land, to Wiley, obtained a decree subjecting them to sale, for payment of the purchase money remaining due. Under this decree, both parcels of the land were sold, and, by direction of the purchaser, were conveyed to Riley, by the commissioner, whose deed was approved at the June term, 1829, of the Circuit Court.

In October, 1832, this court reversed the decree, because the Heirs of James Nichols, who were sued as non-residents, and whose title to one of tho tracts of land had been decreed to be conveyed,…