Watkins v. Brunt

How courts have described this case

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• holding purchaser could not obtain requested relief of reduction in judicial sale price for misstated acreage due in part to his not objecting until after confirmation and indicating that rescission of the sale would have been available if purchaser had not refused this option
• cited by Appellees to allow equitable relief for purchasers “deceived by the action of the court or the misrepresentations of its agents . . . .”
• “There can be no question that the rule of caveat emptor applies to judicial sales of real property, and, in the absence of misconception and fraud, the buyer must look out for himself. He buys at his own risk, both as to title and quantity.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).