Supreme Court of Pennsylvania June 15, 1836 (Leisenring v. Black)

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Kennedy, J.

If the attorney had directed the lots on his bids to have been returned by the sheriff as sold to himself, and the sheriff had accordingly done so, and had made and delivered the deeds of conveyance therefor to him, upon his undertaking to settle the amount of the purchase money with his clients, it could scarcely admit of a question, that the