Supreme Court of North Carolina December 5, 1864 (Patrick v. . Carr)

The demurrer raises the question whether the jurisdiction of a court of equity can be invoked to compel a sheriff who has sold land under an execution (the judgment, and execution, and sale being in all respects regular) to execute a deed to the purchaser, who offers and has always been ready to pay the purchase money; in other words, to compel a sheriff to dohis duty.