Barto v. Davis

Citations

• 37 Wash. 186
• 79 P. 623
• 1905 Wash. LEXIS 698

Syllabus

<p>Estoppel — Settlement and Compkomise — Judgment—Payment in Ignokance oe Execution Sale. Where judgment debtors make a settlement of a judgment in ignorance of the fact that an execution had been issued and their land sold thereunder to the judgment creditors, no sheriff’s deed having been issued or certificate of sale recorded, and the judgment creditors are aware of such ignorance and know that the debtors suppose that the sum paid was for an assignment of the entire judgment, the judgment creditors are estopped from asserting any rights under the sheriff’s deed thereafter issued, or from denying that the settlement included the entire judgment.</p>