Florance v. Bachemin

The judgment of the court was pronounced by

King, I.

Florance obtained a judgment against Jacques Bachemin, which was executed upon several lots of ground of the debtor. At the sheriff’s sale the property seized was adjudicated to Jacques Bachemin and Theodule Bachemin, children of the judgment debtor, who refused to pay the price of adjudication, on the ground that they had a mortgage on the property superior to that of the plaintiff in execution, and for a sum exceeding the amount of their bid. The sheriff proceeded to readvertize the property for sale, whereupon the *175purchasers took a rule…