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54 Cal. 61

Hartman v. Olvera

California Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1879

California Supreme Court · decided 1879-07-01

Sepulveda, J. It appeared from the complaint that Augustin Olvera, defendant Olvera’s testator, sold the Rancho Cuyamaca to one Stewart, and took a mortgage for the purchase-money; that Stewart conveyed undivided interests to the defendants Allison and Treat, the latter of whom conveyed an undivided interest to defendant Luco; that the said defendants agreed with Stewart to pay their respective proportions of the mortgage debt, and that they had been garnisheed under an…

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Decided 1879-07-01

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By the Court:

¶1The demurrer should have been sustained. The complaint alleges, indeed, that the defendants, Luco and Allison, admitted an indebtedness on service of process of garnishment, but sets forth in full the facts out of which the alleged indebtedness arose. The appellants did not become indebted by taking conveyances from the mortgagor, nor did they become indebted to the mortgagee by an agreement made between them and the mortgagor, to which the mortgagee was not a party, and to which he did not assent.

¶2Judgment reversed and cause remanded, with directions to sustain the demurrer to the complaint. Remittitur forthwith,

¶3Wallace, C. J., expressed no .opinion.

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