CORNETT v. SWIFT COAL & TIMBER CO.

No. 8368.

112 F.2d 387 (1940)

CORNETT v. SWIFT COAL & TIMBER CO. et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

April 9, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cleon K. Calvert, of Pineville, Ky., and Napier & Napier, of Hazard, Ky., for appellant.

Samuel M. Wilson and McDonald & McDonald, all of Lexington, Ky., and Lewis E. Harvie, of Whitesburg, Ky., for appellees.

Before HICKS, ALLEN, and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

This case was heard upon the transcript, briefs and argument of counsel, and it appearing that the District Court did not err in deciding that the purchaser at a sheriff's sale by virtue of the tax sale and deed from the sheriff takes the land subject to liens existing at the time of sale (Hall v. Hall, 174 Ky. 356, 192 S.W. 76; Smith v. Young, 178 Ky. 376, 198 S.W. 1166; Drane v. Graves, 261 Ky. 787, 88 S.W.2d 927); and the record presenting no reversible...

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