Is a sheriff justified in selling goods in execution to the highest bidder?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Pease v. Tudge, 1914 CanLII 187 (SK QB):
And he cites as authority for that proposition the case of Keightley v. Birch, 3 Campbell 521, the headnote of which, in part, reads:— “The sheriff, having taken goods in execution under a fi. fa., is not justified in selling them to the highest bidder, but, if he cannot obtain a reasonable price, should return that they remain in his hands for want of buyers.”
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