Gnarini
Gnarini v. Banca Svizzera Americana
Opinion
lead Opinion
Sturtevant, J.
This is an appeal by defendant from a judgment in favor of plaintiff on the second trial of this action. On the first appeal a judgment in favor of defendant was reversed by the supreme court on rehearing, after disagreement in this court. Upon the second trial the court below rendered judgment in favor of plaintiff, and this appeal is from such judgment.
Briefly stated, the facts involved are as follows: On February 2, 1903, the firm of Cain, Boyd, and Corriea executed to the defendant bank a note in the sum of two thousand dol lars, upon which the sum of one hundred dollars was subsequently paid. The payment of this note was secured by a mortgage given by Cain, a member of the firm, to the defendant bank. This mortgage also secured an individual note of Cain’s. The mortgage contained a clause that it ivas given as security for the repayment of all other and further advances that might be made to the firm of Cain, Boyd, and Corriea. The bank made the two thousand dollar loan to the firm upon the faith in this clause in the mortgage. On December 11, 1903, a corporation by the name “Cain, Boyd and Corriea” was formed, of which corporation Cain was president. On June 4, 1904, a new…