Cline

Cline v. Robbins

Good Law
1898 Cal. LEXIS 1063·6 Cal. Unrep. 176·55 P. 150
Supreme Court of CaliforniaNovember 21, 1898Sac. No. 349California1,162 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Haynes, J.

This appeal is from an order made after final judgment denying appellant’s motion to dismiss the action. Cline brought an action to have it adjudged that a certain instrument, in form a deed absolute, was in fact a mortgage, and for an accounting between himself and defendant Robbins, who was in possession of the property, and *177 receiving its rents and profits, and offering to pay any balance that might be found due from him to the defendant. The defendant denied that said instrument was a mortgage, and alleged that it was a deed absolute. Upon the hearing, the court found that said instrument was a mortgage, and that there was due to the defendant $583; and, as conclusions of law, that the mortgage should be foreclosed, that each party pay his own costs, and that each party pay one-half of the jury fee. That fee amounted to $72, and had been paid by the plaintiff. Judgment was thereupon entered foreclosing said mortgage, and ordering a sale of the mortgaged premises. Prom this judgment, defendant Bobbins appealed, making the points that the finding that said instrument was a mortgage was not justified by the evidence, and that the judgment foreclosing the mortgage was…

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