Alma Investment Co. v. Lee

On December 12, 1956, the administrator of the estate of Walter L. Lee, deceased, sold at private sale a parcel of real property belonging to the estate to Laurence DeTilla for the sum of $500. On January 23, 1957, the administrator filed a petition for confirmation of this sale and the petition came on regularly for hearing in the superior court on February 11, 1957. Laurence DeTilla was not present at this hearing. The court ordered that the property be sold to appellant Alma Investment Company, a corporation, for the sum of $550, as the corporation had increased DeTilla’s bid in open court…