Alameda County Title Insurance v. United State Fidelity & Guaranty Co.

This is an appeal by a notary public and her bondsman from a judgment for damages caused by her attaching her certificate of acknowledgment to a certain deed of reconveyance purporting to be, but not in fact, signed by one R. Hummel.

On October 27, 1925, the title to the real property in question was in Daisy Grisham. On that date Daisy Grisham executed and delivered two deeds of trust of such real property to secure the payment by her of certain sums of money, to wit: A first deed of trust to R. Hummel and A. Schomig as trustees, to secure the payment to Hilda Hummel of the sum of $2,200, and a second deed of trust to secure the payment to A. Schomig of the sum of $1450. On June 14, 1926, Daisy Grisham having in the meantime married, she and her husband conveyed the property covered by the aforesaid deeds of trust to Ramos Bros., Incorporated, subject to the existing encumbrances. Thereafter proceedings were taken to sell the property under the second deed of trust, which resulted in four separate deeds

being successively made by the trustees to L. Schlegel as grantee. Thereafter and on March 4, 1927, L. Schlegel executed and delivered a deed to said property to D. D.…