Williams v. Williams

TITUS, Chief Judge.

At a sale allegedly authorized by the Probate Court of Shannon County (§ 473.-457 et seq. RSMo 1969), real property was knocked off to plaintiffs on June 1, 1968, by defendant, the administratrix of a decedent’s estate. Plaintiffs subsequently sued defendant (individually and as administra-trix) in the Circuit Court of Shannon County charging that defendant’s by-bidding or puffing at the sale ran up plaintiffs’ original $15,000 bid to their final bid of $23,225 for which they bought the real estate. Count I of the petition prayed for the court to order defendant, either…