Patterson v. Latrobe

We éntertain no doubt as to the power of a Court of equity, upon a proper case being made by the alleged *195purchasers, to rescind an order ratifying a sale reported by its trustee. Whether the appellants are entitled to that relief in the present case, depends first upon the question whether they ever became purchasers, in fact or not, and that question must be determined by the evidence in the record.

The record as supplemented by agreement of counsel, shows, that upon a bill filed in the Circuit Court of Baltimore City in 1866, for the sale, for purpose of partition, of certain land in Queen…