20 Ind. 217 | Ind. | 1863
Suit to set aside a Sheriff’s sale. Demurrer to the complaint sustained. Einal judgment for the defendant.
The complaint makes the following case: In February, 1861, Soioles and wife obtained in the Hendricks Circuit Court, a judgment, upon foreclosure of a mortgage, of about 575 dollars. The defendant in that judgment was insolvent except as to the mortgaged property. Ten days after the adjournment of the term at which the judgment was ren-' dered, the Clerk of the Court, without an order from either of the plaintiffs, issued an 'order of sale upon the judgment,
The Clerk erred in the case, in issuing the order of sale without the direction of the judgment plaintiffs, or one of them; but a bona fide purchaser would not be prejudiced by the error. He would have the benefit of the presumption that the officer had done his duty. Lewis v. Philips, 17 Ind. 108. The difference between the sum bid for the property at the sale and its actual value, was not so great as to, per se, render the sale void. Swope v. Ordery, 5 Ind. 213. See the cases in Davis’ Ind. Dig., p. 537.
The judgment is affirmed, with costs.