Stewart v. Paulding
Stewart v. Paulding
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
The defendant is appellant from a judgment, which condemns him to pay the difference between the price, at which certain property was adjudicated to him at the first sale, and that for which it was adjudicated on a re-sale at public auction, on his refusal to comply with the terms and conditions of the first adjudication.
The attention of this court is first drawn, by the counsel of the appellant, to a bill of exceptions taken to the charge of the district judge, delivered to the jury at the close of the trial. The judge told the jury, that on a non-compliance with the terms and conditions of an auction sale, by the last and highest bidder, to whom the property has been adjudicated, at the end of ten days, and after the customary advertisements, the property may be re-sold, and the first bidder is „ f ¶ , . liable for any deficiency between the price of the property at the first sale, and that of the second adjudication.
« That the second sale need not be advertised during more than ten days, but the advertisements must be published m at least two news-papers, in the French and English languages, and notices of such sale put up at the court-house ° 0 7 A A and church-doors.”
“ That if they believed the testimony of De Armas, the deman(l for a compliance with the terms and conditions 0f sale, at the first adjudication of the property, was waived.’’
“That neither the vendor nor the bidder are obliged to Pel'f°rm their parts of the terms and conditions of sale, until requested to do so by the other.” *
, “That the vendor has the choice of two remedies, the demand of the price, or a re-sale of the property.”
As this case is presented, it does not appear to this court, ■* . f ... that the defendant has cause, or any right to complain of any part of the charge of the judge a quo, to the jury. He seems t0 }raye stated the law in the way most favorable to the J defendant.
On the merits, it is shown that the defendant declared himself unwilling to comply with the terms and conditions of the first adjudication, on the most frivolous grounds, viz: that he was about making a trip to the northward. The only doubt that may arise in his favor, relates to the question of fact, whether the advertisements were duly made and published. The law on this part of the case was particularly stated, and explained to the jury in the way most favorable to the defence, in the charge of the court. The jury were satisfied as to the facts, and the court expressed its approval
It is, therefore, ordered, adjudged and decreed, that the judgment of the District Court be affirmed, with costs.
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