Kirkpatrick v. Lewis

This is an appeal by a purchaser at a judicial sale of real estate, made by only three out of five trustees appointed to make the sale; and it is from an order sustaining exceptions to the ratification of the sale. The property is farm land in Montgomery County, of about 300 acres, now susceptible of development in building lots, and the sale was decreed under the Code, art. 16, sec. 152, for the purposes of partition or division of the proceeds among owners in common. The proceedings leading to the sale were in all respects regular, and no objection is made to them. The advertisement of sale…