19 Mo. 408 | Mo. | 1854
delivered the opinion of the court.
The instrument executed by Ely, in January, 1838, conveyed the property to Carswell & McClellan, in trust to secure
The present plaintiff claims by a subsequent conveyance made by Carswell & McClellan, under a decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia, by which they convey to the plaintiff all their right and title under the deed from Ely to them, styling it a mortgage deed, and also all their right acquired by the deed of the sheriff to the property which they purchased under the judgment and special fieri facias before mentioned.
After the purchase at the sheriff’s sale, under which the defendant claims the property in question in this suit, it not appearing by the sheriff’s return on the execution that he had sold the property at the sale, he was permitted to amend the return so as to state that he had sold it to Glover & Wells, and the price for which it was sold. This was done upon a motion to the court and an order made thereon. A deed was made by the sheriff to Glover & Wells for the property in question, after the expiration of his term of office. He was not in office at the time he was allowed by the court to amend his return.
The only instruction asked by the plaintiff, in relation to this branch of the defendants’ title, was the sixth, which required the court to say that no title passed by the proceedings in the suit of Carswell & McClellan against Ely and the deed of the