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1 Cal. Unrep. 886

Sharp v. Griffin

California Supreme Court

Decided October 18, 1875

California Supreme Court · decided 1875-10-18

This was a suit to have declared a mortgage an instrument in form more a bill of sale, and for a foreclosure. On August 7, 1869, the defendant James Arnott was indebted to the plaintiff in the sum of seven hundred and ninety-two dollars and to the defendant Griffin in the sum of eleven hundred and sixty dollars.

Decided 1875-10-18

By the COURT.

¶1— There is a substantial conflict in the evidence as to the fact whether- the bill of sale was intended as a mortgage. The court below finds that it was so intended, and we cannot disturb the finding. Assuming it to have been a mortgage, the provision by which the defendant “agrees to pay as fast as it comes out of the claim, after deducting three dollars a day for living, for each day’s work,” is not to be construed as an agreement that the debt to the plaintiff shall be paid only out of the proceeds as they come out of the claim after deducting the three dollars per day. The defendant (Griffin) was not liable for the plaintiff’s debt, and did not agree to pay it, except conditionally in the manner stated. He undertook, it is true, to apply the proceeds, after deducting the per diem to the plaintiff’s debt; but the debt was due when the instrument was executed, and there was no stipulation to extend the credit. There is no error in the record.

¶2Judgment affirmed.

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