20 Wend. 22 | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | 1838
The statute authorizes a proceeding of this kind, “ where any person shall hold over and continue in the possession of any real estate which shall have been sold by virtue of an execution against such person, after a title under such sale shall have been perfected.” 2 R. S. 512, § 28, sub. 4. The applicant did not state facts enough in his affidavit to give the officer jurisdiction. Conceding that this remedy may be applied against one who comes into possession of the land under the judgment debtor, as well as against the judgment debtor himself, Birdsall v. Phillips, 17 Wendell, 474, it can only be where
Ordered accordingly.