Boccuti v. Spitznagle

A purchaser of leasehold property sold by administrators at a private sale appeals from an order of the orphans’ court setting the sale aside upon exceptions filed by a competing bidder. The private sale was duly authorized, the price accepted was above the appraised value, and there is no question of the diligence of the administrators in seeking possible purchasers, unless the exceptant may be said to have raised one. His contention is that the administrators had promised him an opportunity to meet any higher offer than one he had already made, but failed to give him that opportunity before…