Gratiot State Bank v. Martin

The question presented by this record is whether this court should now abandon the rule which has obtained here for many years that an offer or agreement to advance a bid upon a resale which is made before the sale is confirmed, not accompanied by a showing of mistake, misapprehension, or inadvertence, is insufficient to sustain an order setting aside the sale (Adams v. Haskell (1859), 10 Wis. *123; Kneeland v. Smith (1861), 13 Wis. *591; Griswold v. Barden (1911), 146 Wis. 35, 130 N. W. 952; A. J. Straus Paying Agency v. Jensen (1938), 226 Wis. 462, 277 N. W. 105) ; or whether we shall adopt the…