Hyder v. Butler

Hyder brought this action of ejectment to recover possession of a small tract of land in Carter County. The Circuit Judge, who tried the ease without a jury, rendered a judgment in his favor, and Butler, the defendant, appealed in error.

The plaintiff’s title depends upon a Sheriff’s deed, which the defendant assails as void upon its face. The deed recites that the present plaintiff, Hyder, and others, filed a bill in the Chancery Court of Carter County against Pressley Maupin and others, to enforce a vendor’s lien on certain tracts of land sold to these defendants — that separate decrees were…