Bertschman
Bertschman v. Covell
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Richards, J.
The plaintiff prosecutes this appeal from a judgment in the defendants’ favor after the sustaining of a demurrer to her amended complaint, the plaintiff declining to further amend. The plaintiff was the holder of a mortgage upon certain real property in Stanislaus County, owned by one Blanche B. Morton, who prior to the making of said mortgage had made, executed, and delivered to the defendant Western American Realty Company, as trustee for the defendant Anglo-California Trust Company, a trust deed to secure the payment of a promissory note to the latter for the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, and which trust deed had been duly recorded prior to the execution of the plaintiff’s mortgage. Blanche B. Morton having defaulted in her payments upon the aforesaid note the trustee proceeded to sell the property covered by both these encumbrances at trustee’s sale. It is not disputed that notices of default and of the election to sell under the terms of the deed of trust were duly made, given and recorded as required by the terms thereof, nor is it disputed that the notice of sale was duly and regularly given by the trustee for the prescribed period, nor is there anything in the…