Rafferty v. Norris

Citations

• 12 Pa. Super. 450
• 1900 Pa. Super. LEXIS 261

Syllabus

<p>. Public sale — Standing timber — Employment of puffers.</p> <p>The employment of a bidder at a public sale, merely for the purpose of raising the price, vitiates the sale. The operation of this rule is not affected by the fact that the purchaser admitted that he did not bid more in consequence of the puffer’s bid, nor because there were intervening bona fide bids, between the puffer’s last one and the purchaser’s last one, which carried the price at which the property was struck off more than $1,000 beyond the last bid of the puffer.</p>