Ford

This is an appeal from an order vacating an execution sale on the grounds that the price was wholly disproportionate to the real value of the property and that the sale was unfair and fraudulent. The appellant is the purchaser at the sale. He was not a party to the action and his position is that where a purchaser at a judicial sale is not a party to the action, the sale cannot be vacated on motion, but only in a separate action brought for that purpose. [1] This is the sole question in the case, and it is answered by Thompson v. Superior Court, 119 Cal. 538, 542 , [ 51 Pac. 863, 864 ], where an order vacating a judicial sale was under attack and the court said: “It is contended that this order is void for want of jurisdiction; that the title to the property having vested in the petitioner by the sale, he could not be divested of that title in such a proceeding. The rule, however, is quite otherwise. While the party seeking relief may resort to his bill in equity, he may—and, indeed, it is often the preferable practice—apply by motion to the court which has decreed the sale, and in applying to such court he may base his application upon any equitable principle of relief which…