Barnard

Barnard v. McIntire

Caution
1919 Cal. App. LEXIS 277·45 Cal. App. 323·187 P. 440
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaDecember 29, 1919Civ. No. 3126.California1,593 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Langdon, J.

This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff for $1,044.43. The action was an equitable one, to recover $2,688.35 upon an alleged unpaid subscription for stock, due from defendant to the America-Europa Film Company, against which company the plaintiff had recovered a deficiency judgment in an action to foreclose a chattel mortgage. The mortgage had been given by said .corporation to secure the payment of a note for two thousand five hundred dollars, payable to the plaintiff. The appellant has argued in his briefs a number of questions of fact and has quoted evidence in support of his version of the testimony. But there was conflicting evidence upon the decisive questions of fact in the case, and appellant’s argument upon the evidence merely raises the question of whether or -not there is any substantial evidence contained in the record upon which certain findings of the trial court may be based. The question of the due execution of the note to the plaintiff, secured by chattel mortgage, the consideration therefor, and such matters we may dismiss very briefly. They are argued by appellant, but are not open to inquiry here,, nor were they open to…

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