Hensley v. Baker

Baker, the Sheriff of Callaway County, by virtue of an execution against Jos. D. Johnson, levied on and sold on the 4th July, 1845, a negro man slave, the property of the said Johnson, when Samuel Hensley became the purchaser for the sum of $303, who refused to pay the amount bid by him on the ground that the slave was unsound; thereupon the Sheriff again offered the slave for sale, when he sold for the sum of $252. This was a proceeding commenced by virtue of the 42nd section of the áct concerning executions, to recover from Hensley the difference between the sum bid by him on the first…