Cloud v. Maryland Casualty Co.

DOMENGEAUX, Judge.

In this suit plaintiff, a successful bidder at a sheriff’s sale held on November 21, 1959, of immovable property, seeks to recover the sums paid by him to the sheriff for the property because of the subsequent nullification of the sale.

Considerable litigation1 in the course of which the property of one Dillard Cloud was seized and sold at the above said sheriff’s sale culminated in the case at bar. One of the seizing creditors was Vincent Hazleton, who was also attorney for the remaining seizing creditors. The land sold for $1300.00, which sum minus $141.00 deducted for his…