49 Kan. 114 | Kan. | 1892
Opinion by
October 12, 1888, defendants in error, who were plaintiffs below, obtained a personal judgment against these plaintiffs for the sum of $1,401.93, and also for a foreclosure of a mortgage on the southwest quarter of section 24, and the northwest quarter of section 25, all in township 22 south, of range 2 east, in Harvey county, Kansas. Upon said judgment, the court directed an order of sale to issue to the sheriff, commanding him to appraise, advertise and sell said lands. The order of sale was issued, the land duly appraised at $2,740, advertised and offered for sale, but returned “not sold for want of bidders.” November 24,1888, another
The contention of the plaintiffs in error is, that the court erred in ordering a second appraisement of the land before it had been twice offered for sale under the first appraisement, and that such error was not cured by any of the subsequent proceedings in the case. The land did not sell when first offered for sale, because no bids were received therefor. The sheriff returned the property “not sold for want of bidders.” An alias order of sale was then obtained, under which the sheriff', without any order of the court therefor, procured the lands to be reappraised, instead of offering them for sale the second time under the first appraisement. This was a mistake of the sheriff, and the court seems to have treated this second appraisement as a nullity, aud regarded the sale made on the alias order as having been made under the first appraisement. We do not discover any error in this. The sheriff had no power at that time to order a new appraisement of the lands. No order of the court had been obtained directing a second appraisement, and we think the court was justified in treating such appraisement as void. The first appraisement had not been set aside by the court, and was therefore the only effective appraisement in existence when the lands were the second time offered for sale. The amount for which the lands sold
By the Court: It is so ordered.