Supreme Court of the United States March 18, 1880, 1016 (Montgomery v. Sawyer)

Mr. Justice Bradley

delivered the opinion of the court.

The controversy in this case relates to a certain plantation in the parish of Plaquemines, called the “ New Hope or Cedar Grove Plantation.” The appellee, Sawyer, claims it as purchaser at sheriff’s sale under a judgment rendered in February, 1872, by the Fifth District Court of Orleans, at the suit of one James E.