Edmondson v. Slicer

John W. Edmondson and Alice M. Edmondson, his wife, appellants, offered at public auction and sold to Anna B. Slicer, appellee, on October 20th, 1925, for $5,000, their improved parcel of land, containing about fifteen acres of land and lying in both of the adjoining counties of Carroll and Baltimore. The vendee claimed that she had merely bid the property in for the vendors and declined to complete the purchase; and proceedings were instituted specifically to enforce her contract. The bill of complaint stated that $475 of the purchase price was payable on the day of sale; and the residue…