Pennington v. Clifton

The appellant was the plaintiff, and the appellee the defendant. The complaint charges that one Aaron Talbee recovered a judgment in the Putnam Circuit Court against Andrew Clifton, the defendant, for 532 dollars ; that the sheriff, by virtue of an execution issued on said judgment, levied upon and exposed to sale a certain tract of land, supposed to be the property of Clifton, and that Pennington, the plaintiff, believing the land to be Clifton’s purchased it at the sheriff’s sale for 667 dollars, paid the purchase-money, and received a deed pursuant to the sale; that at the time of the…