Pfingst v. Wilson
Pfingst v. Wilson
Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
The only question presented on this appeal is whether the court below erred in sustaining appellee’s exceptions to the report of the sale made by the marshal, of the real estate described in the pleadings, and opening the biddings on the offer of appellee to advance $2,000 on the price at which appellants were reported to have purchased the property.
By the judgment under which the property was first sold, the marshal was ordered, after advertising according to law and the rules of the court, to sell upon credit of six, twelve, and eighteen months, so much of the real property of the said “Louisville Chemical Works” as may be necessary to satisfy the judgment in favor of said Masonic Savings Bank.
Hamilton stated that he was present, and while the property was being cried off he inquired of the marshal, as. he wished to purchase, whether the fixtures on the premises would go to the purchaser under the sale, and the marshal replied he did not know. He also stated that if he had purchased the premises, he would have particularly desired the fixtures thereon; and if he had known they would have passed, he would have bid more for the property than it brought; and that the doubt whether the fixtures would pass to him prevented him from bidding. How much more he would have bid if he had had the desired information he does not state. But appellee, who was interested in the sale, and for whose benefit as a creditor of the Louisville Chemical Works, the property was in part sold, was not at the sale; being a party he must be presumed to have known what the judgment was, or what would pass by the sale under it; if he did not, it was his duty to have applied to the court for an explanation, or specific directions to the marshal what he was to sell; or if he had applied to a legal adviser for information, and had been misinformed or deceived by his counsel, he would have been in a more favorable attitude. But there is nothing in the record to show that he used any efforts to inform himself on the subject about which he now complains there was a mistake or misunderstanding, until after, the sale of the property.
Appellee might have learned that the purchasers probably could,
Wherefore the judgment sustaining the exceptions to the marshal’s report, and setting aside the sale to appellants is reversed and the-cause is remanded with directions to confirm the report of sale to them for further proceedings consistent herewith.
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