McKinnon v. Sheffield

1. The doctrine of caveat emptor applies to administrators’ sales. Wells v. Harper, 82 Ga. 194 (6 S. E. 913, 12 Am. St. R. 310); Mercer v. Sager, 129 Ga. 123 (58 S. E. 1037); Thrift v. Baker, 144 Ga. 508 (87 S. E. 676). Therefore the provision of the Civil Code, § 4122, for apportionment of the purchase-price on account of deficiency of acreage in a sale of land where- the purchase is by the acre, has no application to administrators’ sales. Greer v. McDonald, 141 Ga. 309 (80 S. E. 1002).

2. Upon the allegations of the petition as amended and the proposed amendment which was rejected by the…