Smith v. Hill

WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.

The appellant made the only bid at a receivers’ sale, which, later, the District Court refused to confirm. Asserting his inchoate right of a bidder at a judicial sale, the appellant took this appeal (Investment Registry, Ltd., v. Chicago & M. E. R. Co., 212 F. 594, 129 C. C. A. 130; Metzler v. Wyoming National Bank [C. C. A.] 278 F. 620; Stokes v. Williams, 226 F. 148, 141 C. C. A. 146; 3 C. J. 652, 653), and charges that the learned trial judge, in refusing confirmation, abused his discretion in that he acted on an entire absence of evidence that the bid was grossly…