Root

Root v. Greadwohl

Good Law
1912 Cal. App. LEXIS 125·20 Cal. App. 139·128 P. 418
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaOctober 17, 1912Civ. No. 1086.California951 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Lennon, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment and from an order denying a new trial in an action upon a promissory note, wherein the plaintiff was awarded a judgment against the defendant in the sum of four hundred dollars.

The note in suit was executed by the defendant to plaintiff’s assignors in payment of a broker’s commission for the sale of certain real estate belonging to the defendant. As a defense to the action the defendant in her answer alleged in substance that she never contracted to give the note sued on;- that she never agreed to pay the money at the time, in' the manner, or in the amount specified in the note; that the note did not- express the terms and conditions of the real contract between plaintiff’s assignors and defendant; that the note was signed by the defendant through mistake and under a misapprehension as to its contents, and finally that the consideration for the note had wholly failed before it became due.

The court found generally and specifically that all of the allegations of the plaintiff’s complaint were true, and that all of the denials and defenses of the defendant’s answer were untrue.

There is no merit in the defendant’s contention that the trial court…

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