Slingluff v. Eckel
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the Common Pleas of Blair county. Action on the case by Eckel, Spangler & Raiguel against Levi Slingluff and another, administrators, &c., of John Belch, deceased. John W. Potts was the owner of two tracts of land, which was bound by a number of judgments, including two in favor of the plaintiffs. In 1845, a writ of vend. ex. was issued upon a judgment in favor of Lex & Son, and one of the tracts was exposed to sale.
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ERROR to the Common Pleas of Blair county. Action on the case by Eckel, Spangler & Raiguel against Levi Slingluff and another, administrators, &c., of John Belch, deceased. John W. Potts was the owner of two tracts of land, which was bound by a number of judgments, including two in favor of the plaintiffs. In 1845, a writ of vend. ex. was issued upon a judgment in favor of Lex & Son, and one of the tracts was exposed to sale. A. Bunn, as agent of the plaintiffs, testified that he attended the sale, having been requested by the plaintiffs to bid for them. That during the sale, Belch agreed…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered, October 1, by
BlacK, J.
The plaintiffs had a judgment against one Potts, which was a lien upon land about to be sold by the sheriff. They sent their agent to the sale with instructions to bid on it for them. The defendants’ intestate was there also, and a bidder. ' He agreed to buy off the plaintiffs’ competition by a promise that he would see their judgments paid if the proceeds of Potts’ land were not sufficient for that purpose. Whereupon the agent did not bid, and Belch got the land at a price upwards of $500 less than what was sufficient to cover the…
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