Horace Maxwell Goldfine v. United States of America

Appellant is a part owner, subject to a contract of sale hereafter referred to, of a piece of property in Boston known as the Little Building. Pursuant to a stipulation of appellant and others, appellees, receivers of his co-owner, a delinquent taxpayer, were authorized by the district court to sell the property as a unit. Their contract of sale to another appellee was confirmed by the court on June 19, 1963. Appellant was a party to the district court proceedings, but, making certain ready assumptions in his favor, through “excusable neglect” did not learn the full terms of the contract as…