Case Name: Emil Feherenback v. Andrew Strauss
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1867-09-24
Citations: 2 Ky. Op. 48
Docket Number: 
Parties: Emil Feherenback v. Andrew Strauss.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Opinions, containing the unreported opinions of the Court of Appeals
Volume: 2
Pages: 48–48

Head Matter:
Emil Feherenback v. Andrew Strauss.
Land — Sheriff’s Sale — Quashal—Innocent Purchaser — Negligence in Seeking Relief — Estoppel.
The negligent failure to seek relief, from a sale of land, by a sheriff until his vendee has sold the property and the legal title having been conveyed to an' innocent purchaser without notice, will operate as an estoppel.
.APPEAL E^OM JEEEERSON CIRCUIT COURT.
September 24, 1867.
Btite and Bullitt, for appellant. '
L. A. Wood, for appellee.

Opinion:
Opinion oe the Court by
Judge Robertson:
After the appellant's negligent failure to seek relief from the sale of the house and lot until the sheriff's vendee had sold to Wood, and the legal title had been feonveyed to Wood as an innocent purchaser, without presumable notice of any available defect in the sheriff's sale or levy, and without any intimation or apparent cause of apprehension of a purpose by the appellant to disturb him, and after the appellant, in his petition in equity, had alleged, without qualification, that the sheriff had levied the execution on the house and lot, it is too late to move a quashal of the sale on the alleged ground of an illegal or insufficient levy. The appellant's negligence and long and delusive acquiescence in the -levy, and his expressed, as well as implied, recognition of its validity, should now operate as an estoppel.
But he. has shown no essential defect in the levy. As indorsed on the execution, it is good. And as the sheriff notified the appellant that he would levy on the house and lot, that indorsement, whenever made on the execution in his hands, was sufficient to show authority to sell.
Wherefore the judgment dismissing the appellant's motion to quash the sale is affirmed.