Peck v. List
West Virginia Supreme Court
GREEK, Judue, furnishes the following statement of the ease: At August rules, 1881, Daniel Peek filed his bill in the municipal court of "Wheeling, in which he alleged, that Samuel Lewis and Susannah, his wife, and Louis Wood-mansee and Harriet, his wife, by a deed of trust dated June 17,1868, and duly recorded in the clerk’s office of the county-court of Ohio county- conveyed to him, Daniel Peck, as trustee lot Ho. 40 on the corner of Main and Tenth streets in the city of…
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GREEK, Judue, furnishes the following statement of the ease: At August rules, 1881, Daniel Peek filed his bill in the municipal court of "Wheeling, in which he alleged, that Samuel Lewis and Susannah, his wife, and Louis Wood-mansee and Harriet, his wife, by a deed of trust dated June 17,1868, and duly recorded in the clerk’s office of the county-court of Ohio county- conveyed to him, Daniel Peck, as trustee lot Ho. 40 on the corner of Main and Tenth streets in the city of Wheeling, which lot fronts sixty-seven feet on Main street and one hundred and thirty-three feet on-Tenth street, and lot…
1Opinion of the Court
G-Reen, Judge :
The principal question of controversy in this case is: Did George R.. Tingle in bidding at the auction-sale made by the complainant, Daniel Peck, on the afternoon of the 21st of May, 1881, occupy substantially the position of a puffer, and if so can Henry IL List, the defendant, for this reason repudiate his purchase ? A puffer in the strictest meaning of the word is a person who without having any intention to purchase is employed by the vendor at an auction to raise the price by fictitious bids, thereby increasing competition among the bidders, while he himself is secured…
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