Shuey
Grangers' Bank of California v. Shuey
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Chipman, J.
Foreclosure. Defendants J. A. Shuey and his wife, Delia, on January 20, 1893, executed to plaintiff bank (hereinafter referred to as respondent) a deed of trust, intended as a mortgage, duly recorded January 25, 1893, to secure the overdraft of defendant J. A. Shuey. At that time this overdraft amounted to $6,387.30. On February 27, 1895, Shuey executed to defendant bank (hereinafter referred to as appellant) a mortgage on the premises included in the deed of trust given respondent, which was duly recorded March 29, 1895, actual notice of which came to respondent April 19, 1895. On June 10, 1895, this action was brought to foreclose respondent’s mortgage, the amount secured thereby then being $6,136.19. Appellant, by its cross-complaint, put in issue the *191 amount due respondent on the overdraft, and claimed that the lien of the respondent had been fully paid and satisfied. One of the items of respondent’s account was a promissory note for $5,500, given to respondent August 5, 1893, on which date its overdraft account was credited by this amount. The running account in respondent’s ledger “showed the following credit: ‘1893, August 5th, by note secured by deed of trust, $5,500’;…