Coers v. Williams

The question for decision on this appeal is stated by the appellant to be whether or not tenants in common of a tract of land who desire to sell the same for partition of the proceeds may knowingly include in their sworn petition not only their own land but that of other nearby owners, who are not parties to the suit, offer the whole at public sale, and then force the successful bidder at the sale to pay the full amount of his bid for the purchase of all of the land, where such successful bidder has made timely objection to the confirmation of the sale on the ground above stated.

We are of the…