22 Cal. App. 139 - Seccombe v. Roe’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 1987
19 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on William Early v. John Doe · Market National Bank v. Pacific National Bank · Mersfelder v. Spring · Townsend v. Tallant · State v. Cherry County
Most-quoted passages
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““It must be conceded as a legal proposition that if proper notices of a sale are not given, the sale will not be allowed to stand; and while the trustee may convey the legal title in breach of the trust and without complying with the power, yet the grantee will take a good title at law, but such purchaser, in equity, will hold the property upon the same trusts upon which the trustee held it, for the reason that the purchaser should be held to know the record title of his vendor. In this case the purchaser was the payee of the note and the beneficiary under the trust and must be said, if the sale were invalid, to hold the legal title to this property upon the same trusts as those originally created, which were that he held the same as security for the payment of the debt sued upon. “It is claimed by appellant, however, that such deed of trust containing the provision that, in the event of a sale of said premises, or any part thereof, and the execution of a deed thereto under the trust, then the recitals therein of any default payments, publication of notice of sale, demand that such sale should be made, postponement of sale, terms of sale, purchaser, payment of purchase money, and of any other fact or facts confirming the regularity or validity of sáid sale, shall be conclusive proofs of such matters and of all other facts recited therein against the said first parties, defendants are estopped to claim irregularity connected with the sale. That this would be the effect as to a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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