Rasey

Rasey v. Security First National Bank

Good Law
124 Cal. App. 128·12 P.2d 56
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaJune 7, 1932Docket No. 4562.California778 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Plummer, J.

Plaintiff instituted this action to vacate and set aside a sale, certificate of sale and deed made by the commissioner under a decree of foreclosure and sale made of a certain mortgage wherein Rose Julia Rasey, deceased, had mortgaged certain premises to secure the payment of a promissory note in the sum of $18,000, and interest thereon, which, at the time of foreclosure aggregated a sum between $23,000 and $24,000. To this complaint the respondents interposed a demurrer which was sustained without leave to amend, and from the judgment entered thereafter, this appeal is prosecuted.

The record shows that the property covered by the mortgage was sold to satisfy a judgment in the sum of $23,572.68. Of this amount it is alleged in the complaint that costs in the sum of $66.95 were allowed that should not have been allowed. It appears that the property in question under the foreclosure was advertised twice, and that one of the advertisements cost the sum of $37.50; that the commissioner, while being allowed only the sum of $10, added the expense of the extra advertising and other items, which amounted to the said sum of $66.95, in excess of the costs that should have been allowed the…

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