Kouros v. Sewell

Nichols, Justice.

The general rule is that a bona fide purchaser for value at a judicial sale will be protected although the grantee in a security deed is guilty of fraud and responsible to the grantor for whatever damages he has suffered because of such fraud. See Garrett v. Crawford, 128 Ga. 519 (57 SE 792, 119 ASR 398, 11 AC 167); Mathis v. Blanks, 212 Ga. 226 (4) (91 SE2d 509). And, as has been frequently held: “Inadequacy of price at a public sale under power will not of itself be a sufficient ground to set aside a sale; yet when it is grossly inadequate and is connected with fraud,…