Shine v. Hill
Shine v. Hill
Opinion of the Court
Before adverting to the special objections to the trustee’s sale, it is important to ascertain the position of the defendant Judd, the present owner. For it might be that the plaintiff would be entitled to relief against Hill, and yet not be entitled to have the sale set aside as against J udd, the purchaser from Hill. At the time Judd purchased from Hill, the present bill was not pending. At the time the contract for the purchase was entered into between J udd and Hill, the former is not shown to have had any notice that the validity of Hill’s title was in any manner questioned. He paid down in cash, at the time of the purchase, the sum of $200, and entered into a contract, stringent in its provisions, in relation to the consummation of his purchase on the 20th day of December next ensuing.
On the 4th day of December, plaintiff’s attorney notified Judd that this suit was pending, and that Hill was not a bona fide purchaser of the premises, etc. But this was all. No indemnity was offered to Judd against the effect of a failure to comply with his contract previously entered into with Hill.
Accordingly, on the 20th of December, Judd, pursuant to his contract, paid Hill the $2,300, and gave his negotiable notes for the residue of the purchase-money.
The objections made to the trustee’s sale must be viewed from Judd’s stand-point, and are decided with reference to his rights; but in thus saying, we are not to be understood as holding that those objections, or any of them, would have^een available to set aside the sale to Hill, had he still retained .the title.
The charge that the-trustee did not act honestly and with reasonable diligence in making the sale, is not supported by the testimony.
Such is not the necessary meaning, and there is no evidence that this statement was fraudulently made, or that it did or conld work any prejudice to the plaintiff. The objection is not available as a ground to set aside the sale of the property in the hands of the defendant, Judd.
A large amount of testimony was taken to establish that Mrs. Malony (widow of the grantor in the deed of trust), her brother Quigly, and Benton, agent of Hill, entered into a conspiracy to make a secret sale of the property in order to cut off or defeat the plaintiff’s lien.
In view of the positive and direct denials, under oath, of- all of these parties of the truth of this charge, .we cannot, notwithstanding the suspicions engendered by certain portions of the evidence, hold the charge to be established. The court unite in reaching this conclusion; and it would' serve no useful purpose to enter into a detailed ¿xamination of the testimony.
Affirmed.
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