Womack v. Tidwell

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The receiver, plaintiff in error in the cross-bill, cites the case of Sproull v. Seay, 76 Ga. 27 (2), as authority for the proposition that “the measure of the first bidder’s liability was fixed at the difference between his bid and what the property brought at the final sale.” The language quoted would indeéd be conclusive authority if jaken alone; but a previous decision of the court on the same case, and the first headnote of the decision from which the quotation is taken, show that the above holding was based on the particular facts of the Spi'oull…