(after stating the case). Clearly the estate of the defendant’s testator would have been charged with the $1,000, for which the land was sold to Lassiter, if all the purchase money had been paid to him, and the former decision was predicated upon the fact that it had not all been collected and perhaps could not be.

Adverting to the fact found by the referee, as appears in the report, that the land, the title to which was retained as security for the purchase money, is ample security for the balance of the purchase money due from Lassiter, and that the whole of it can therefore, with reasonable certainty, be collected, upon reconsideration, we think there was error in the former decision and that the estate of the defendant’s testator, instead of being charged with $750, found to be the actual value of the land, should have been charged with the amount actually received from, the sale of the land, with interest thereon at 6 per cent., and that the defendant executor should have been required to surrender to the plaintiff administrator, or to some one to be appointed by the Court, the notes or bonds for the uncol ected balance of the purchase money, with the security retained therefor, with directions for the collection of the same for the benefit of the estate of plaintiff’s intestate, and with such further directions in *377 relation thereto as will secure the title to Lassiter, upon the payment by him of the balance of the purchase money, or the protection of his rights in the excess above the balance due, if it shall be found necessary to resell the land for the purpose of collection. This will protect the estate of the defendant’s testator against any possibility of loss, and at the same time prevent, as a well settled principle of law and equity requires should be done, any benefit from accruing hereto by reason of the collusive sale of the land.

The result will be the same as if the estate of the defendant’s testator had been charged with the $1,000, for which he sold the land to Lassiter, to be discharged upon the payment of the money and interest thereon, received by him and a surrender of the notes or bonds and the security held for the balance.

There was error in the former decision as herein indicated, and it will be corrected and made to conform to this.

Error.