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107 Cal. 627

Harrelson v. Tomich

California Supreme Court

Decided July 2, 1895

California Supreme Court · decided 1895-07-02

This action was brought to foreclose a mortgage upon property in Los Angeles county, given to secure a note for sixteen thousand five hundred dollars, with interest at the rate of eighteen per cent per annum.

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently May 1900

2 state decisions

Relies on Daw v. Niles

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Decided 1895-07-02

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Britt, C.

¶1The controlling question here is whether it was competent for defendants to prove an alleged oral agreement entered into by the parties to the mortgage, for the foreclosure of which plaintiff prosecutes this action, and contemporaneously with such mortgage, whereby the mortgagor undertook to pay the taxes which might be assessed or levied upon the mortgage or the debt secured by the same; this for the purpose of defeating plaintiff’s claim to interest on, the debt. The court below excluded such evidence, and rendered judgment for plaintiff. Counsel agree that the question presented is substantially the same as that in Daw v. Niles, 104 Cal. 106, which case was yet pending in this court when the briefs were filed on the present appeal. That case having been since decided adversely to the views of defendants, on its authority the judgment and order appealed from should be affirmed.

¶2Haynes, C., and Belcher, C., concurred.

¶3For the reasons given in the foregoing opinion the judgment and order appealed from are affirmed.

¶4McFarland, J., Henshaw, J., Temple, J.

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