Teague v. Burk

Appellee recovered a judgment against appellants for $748.63, with foreclosure of a mortgage lien on personal property, which the sheriff sold for $250. Thereafter, under execution issued on the judgment, the sheriff sold 150 acres of appellants' land for $200; appellee being the purchaser. Appellants then brought this suit to set aside both sales, alleging in reference to the personal property that appellee "chilled the sale" by fraudulently inducing one Jess Wofford to absent himself from the sale and to not bid, which caused the property to sell for a grossly inadequate price. The jury…