Sproull v. Seay
Supreme Court of Georgia
Administrators and Executors: Sales. Damages. Before Judge Branham. Floyd Superior Court. March Adjourned Term, 1885 This case will be found fully reported in It Get., 616. When it again came on for .trial in the superior court, the court charged, in substance, as stated in the second headnote. The jury found for the defendant. The plaintiff moved for a new trial, which was refused, and he excepted.
1Opinion of the Court
Blandford, Justice.
When this case was before this court at the last term upon a non suit, the facts being substantially as they now are, this court reversed the court below, awarding a non-suit, holding that “ an administrator can recover from a bidder at his sale, who fails to comply with his bid, the difference between the sum bid and that which the land subsequently sold for;” that if the second sale be delayed at the instance of the bidder, this delay will not relieve him; and that if the second bidder does not comply with his bid, *29and the property is sold a third time, and the last sale…
2Cited by1 opinion
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