Spence

Spence v. Scott

Good Law
1892 Cal. LEXIS 797·95 Cal. 152·30 P. 202
Supreme Court of CaliforniaJune 18, 1892No. 14969California363 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

This cause is now before us upon the application of appellant Kowalsky for an order restraining the sheriff of Los Angeles County from executing a deed to respondent, pursuant to a foreclosure sale, upon the ground that said Kowalsky has appealed to this court from the judgment of foreclosure, and has executed an undertaking on appeal which stays all proceedings. A temporary order was made, so restraining the sheriff *153 pending the hearing and determination of the application.

It appears now that the decree of foreclosure included a deficiency judgment, and that the undertaking on appeal in this case does not provide for the payment of such deficiency. It was substantially decided in the case of Johnson v. King, 91 Cal. 307 , that in such a case the appellant, whosoever he may be, if he desires a stay of proceedings, must give an undertaking for the deficiency. And that case is not in conflict with either Home Loan Ass’n v. Wilkins, 64 Cal. 379 , or Englund v. Lewis, 25 Cal. 327 , cited by appellant. In the former case an opinion seems to have been first rendered in Department, but a hearing in Bank was ordered, and in the opinion of the court in Bank the point involved here…

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