Anderson
Anderson v. Shaffer
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Burnell, J.
This is an appeal by plaintiff from a judgment dismissing her action, she having failed to amend her complaint after an order sustaining a demurrer thereto.
The complaint alleges the following facts: On April 1, 1912, plaintiff loaned $500 to one Shaffer, accepting as evidence of the latter’s indebtedness his note for $500, dated April 1, 1910 (that date having been inserted by mutual mistake, all parties having intended the date to be written 1912), payable three months after date with interest at seven per cent per annum. To secure payment of this note Shaffer executed a chattel mortgage on personal property belonging to him. The note not being paid, plaintiff, on October 14, 1912, assigned it to one Snider for collection. Snider brought suit on the same day to foreclose the chattel mortgage, judgment therein was entered March 8, 1913, and on March 17, 1913, the property was sold by the sheriff, bringing the net sum of $138.55, which was credited on the judgment, leaving a balance due of $490.02, which was, on March 21, 1913, docketed as a deficiency judgment against Shaffer. No further amount has been paid on the note or deficienc3 judgment. On April 13, 1913; Snider assigned…