Hughes v. Swope
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 41 — PETITION EQUITY — ,APPEAL PROM DAVIESS CIRCUIT COURT. Upon the failure of a bidder to execute bond, the commissioner may again offer the property for sale.
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Case 41 — PETITION EQUITY — ,APPEAL PROM DAVIESS CIRCUIT COURT. Upon the failure of a bidder to execute bond, the commissioner may again offer the property for sale. The bidder does not acquire any right by his bid unless he perfects it by then and there executing bond. 1. As the amount in controversy is less than one hundred dollars, and the title to land is not involved, no appeal lies. 2. If the court, in the exercise of a sound discretion, rejects a bid, that is the end of the matter. Therefore, unless this court can say that the lower court has abused its discretion in rejecting…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE BENNETT
delivered the opinion of the court
Tlie Master Commissioner of tlie Daviess Circuit Court, under a decree of that court, sold at public outcry a lot of ground in the town of Curdsville, on the 10th day of August, 1885, on a credit of four months. At the time of sale the commissioner made known the terms of sale by reading the decree publicly to the crowd present, appellee, by his agent, Gr. W. Swope, being present. Appellee, by his said agent, bid the property off at the price of seventy-five dollars. The commissioner then required him to make his bond, with sufficient surety, for…
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