Hochgraef v. Hendrie

In this case the decree and sale were both made during the life-time of Mrs. Woodbridge, and the sale was made to a third party. This sale was made about four years and a half before her death. Had the- commissioner done his duty, he would have conveyed the property at once, and filed his report in September, 1861, and it would have been confirmed unless some cause was affirmatively shown.

There is, so far as I have found, no authority which holds that proceedings to carry a decree into execution actually begun, and, as in this case, substantially finished, can be affected by the death of a…