Legal Opinion
Kearney v. J.P. King Auction Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 13, 2001No. 00-1837, 00-1910PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge.
This appeal from adverse rulings in the district court concerns the sale of eighty acres of undeveloped waterfront land in Lubec, Maine. Owned by plaintiff-appellant Merrill Kearney, the land was sold at auction on his behalf by defendant-appellee J.P. King Auction Company (“King Auction”) on May 14,1997.
The auction did not go well. Only two bidders were present and one withdrew when the price per acre rose to $100. The remaining bidder offered $8,000, a hugely undervalued price by both parties’ estimates. (Kearney, himself, had only several months…
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