Burns

Savings Bank of San Diego County v. Burns

Good Law
104 Cal. 473·1894 Cal. LEXIS 940·38 P. 102
Supreme Court of CaliforniaNovember 2, 1894No. 19422California1,772 words

Opinion

lead Opinion

Belcher, J.

This is an action to foreclose a mortgage. The defendant demurred to the complaint upon the ground that it did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action, and the demurrer was overruled. She then answered, setting up that the plaintiff had not complied with the requirements of the act of April 1, 1876, “concerning corporations and persons engaged in the business of banking,” aud also that in making the loan referred to in the pleadings plaintiff had violated section 578 of the Civil Code. The plaintiff demurred to the answer, and the demurrer was sustained, and thereupon, defendant declining to amend, *477 judgment of foreclosure was entered as prayed for, from whiciL this appeal is prosecuted.

1. The first point made for a reversal is that the court erred in overruling the demurrer to the complaint. The alleged insufficiency of the complaint is based upon the fact that it simply avers that on a certain day the defendant “executed to the plaintiff a certain promissory note, and also a certain mortgage to secure the same; that a copy of said note is set out in said mortgage, and said mortgage is hereto attached and marked ‘Exhibit B’”; and it is claimed that, as…

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