Levinson

Levinson v. Elbow

Good Law
1927 Cal. App. LEXIS 371·85 Cal. App. 26·258 P. 700
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaAugust 10, 1927Docket No. 5084.California1,784 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Houser, J.

The judgment from which the appeal herein is presented to this court was rendered in an action brought for the purpose of enjoining the enforcement of a deed of trust on certain real property, as well as for having it declared that the deed of trust had been satisfied and paid.

From the findings of fact made by the trial court, as well as from evidence adduced at the trial, it appears that the plaintiffs and defendant Elbow were the owners of the entire outstanding stock of Fashion Hat Company, a corporation (hereinafter styled the corporation), of which stock plaintiffs owned seventy-one shares and defendant Elbow owned fifteen shares; that one of the plaintiffs was the president and that defendant Elbow was the secretary of the corporation; that the corporation borrowed from the defendant Continental National Bank (hereinafter termed the bank) the sum of $4,000, evidenced by the promissory note of the corporation, attested by its said president and its said secretary, and as security therefor the seventy-one shares of stock owned by plaintiffs, an assignment to the bank of “accounts receivable” of said corporation amounting to approximately $5,000, and the trust deed of…

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