297 P. 670 | Kan. | 1931
'The opinion of the court was delivered by
This appeal is taken from an order setting aside an execution sale of real estate of R. L. Funk, a judgment •debtor. Charles W. Johnson, the receiver of the bank of Powhattan, had obtained a judgment against R. L. Funk for $13,245.80. Upon an execution duly issued, and after proper notice, sales were made ■of the real estate, consisting of four parcels, to Carl H. Funk, a brother of the judgment debtor, subject to mortgages and unpaid taxes thereon. The bid on each of the tracts was $1, and the sheriff’s return was that he had received from the purchaser the .sum of $4 for all the land levied upon. It appears that on one tract of 240 acres there was a mortgage of $20,000, on another tract of 160 acres there was a first mortgage in the amount of $7,500, and .a second mortgage on the same tract of $900. Upon an undivided ■one-half interest in another tract of 40 acres there was a mort.gage of $3,000, and on still another tract a half interest in 80 ■acres, there was a mortgage of $3,000.. The court held that the bid ■of $1 on each of the tracts sold was insufficient consideration to •constitute a valid sale, and therefore set it aside with the direction to the sheriff to refund to the purchaser the dollars paid by him. The point is made that the sale proceedings were regular and that, .in the absence of evidence that there were no irregularities, fraud or
The court was warranted in interfering to prevent the abuse of its process and to defeat such an obvious injustice and the carrying-out of such an illegal scheme. (Lankford v. Jackson et al., 21 Ala. 650; Davis v. McCann, 143 Mo. 172.) As to $1 awards and verdicts in other transactions, reference may be made to Botkin v. Living
Our conclusion is that the order of the court setting aside the sale should stand, and it is therefore affirmed.