Sing v. Barker
Sing v. Barker
Opinion of the Court
The defendants apply to this court for a writ of supersedeas on two grounds: First, that their appeal is taken from an interlocutory judgment upon which they are not required to give a stay bond, and, second, that the plaintiffs, having appealed from a portion of the judgment, cannot take advantage of the portion in their favor not appealed from, because plaintiffs have by their appeal selected a remedy which is inconsistent with the enforcement of the balance of the judgment, because the portions of the judgment appealed from are inextricably interwoven with the portion from which no appeal is taken.
The plaintiffs’ mortgage upon 970.93 acres of land was subject to a prior trust deed thereof given to secure an indebtedness of $35,000 and certain advances. Plaintiffs brought this action to enjoin the sale of the land by the trustees for nonpayment of the indebtedness secured by the trust deed, and to have the amount of the indebtedness so secured fixed so that plaintiffs could redeem the property from said trust deed. The trustees claimed the amount of the indebtedness so secured to be $186,000.
By cross-complaint the defendant Grossman, who owned the mortgaged property, sought similar relief against the plaintiffs’ mortgage, as the amount admittedly due thereunder was less than $25,000 and plaintiffs were claiming that more than $400,000 was due thereunder, as alleged in plaintiffs’ answer to this defendant’s cross-complaint. The trial court fixed the amount due upon the trust deed entitled to priority over plaintiffs’ claim at $37,091.70, plus $305 taxes, and the amount due upon plaintiffs’ mortgage at $133,452.27, and provided that the plaintiffs could redeem from the trust deed by paying the clerk of the court the amount due within sixty days, and upon deposit of said trust deed and note thereby secured, properly indorsed and assigned to plaintiffs. The decree further declared that the amount due on the mortgage was $133,452.27 and provided for the payment thereof by the owner within seventy days, and that if the amount of plaintiffs’ mortgage
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was not paid within seventy days the property should be sold in satisfaction of the indebtedness found to be due to the plaintiffs, and that a judgment be entered for the deficiency, if any. The time for redemption has expired and it is not contended that the mortgage has been paid or the amount due tendered.
It is claimed that to enforce the judgment for the amount found due by the court would be inconsistent with the prosecution of the appeal, for the reason that the allowance of damages for lost profits on the undelivered acreage is inconsistent with the allowance of a rebate of rents as provided in the lease for the same land. However that may be, on plaintiffs’ appeal the amount of judgment cannot be reduced below the sum already allowed to them, and the only question is whether or not the amount of the judgment can be increased. If, as the plaintiffs claim, there is an inconsistency between the recovery by the plaintiffs of the amount provided in the lease for a failure to deliver to them the land leased and the right to also recover damages because of loss of profits for such nondelivery, such question goes to the merits of plaintiffs’ appeal, and, however determined, could not result in the decrease of the amount of the judgment in favor of the plaintiffs. There is, therefore, no such inconsistency between the appeal and the rights of the plaintiffs to enforce the judgment as would either justify or require a stay of execution.
It is unnecessary, we think, to review the many cases cited by the petitioners, as both parties agree that no writ can be issued unless there is such inconsistency between the right of appeal and the right of execution to enforce the judgment as require the plaintiffs to elect between the two remedies, and no such inconsistency exists.
The petitioners contend that a sale under execution in foreclosure before the entire amount due is ascertained on appeal would in some manner violate section 726 of the Code of Civil Procedure, which prohibits more than one action for the foreclosure of a mortgage. There is nothing in this point, as this action will be the same single action after the sale as before, the sale being only one step in the foreclosure proceeding, the ascertainment of the deficiency, if any, being another. It should be said in this connection that it is not contended that the property is worth the amount of the liens thereon, as declared by the court.
*591 If authority is needed for such obvious conclusions stated by us, the cases cited below will be sufficient, and, for the reason stated, we deem it unnecessary to enter into a detailed discussion thereof. (Stetson v. Sheehan, (Cal. App.), 200 Pac. 387 [rehearing denied]; Whalen v. Smith, 163 Cal. 361, 363, Ann. Cas. 1913E, 1319, 125 Pac. 904]; Ganahl Lumber Co. v. Weinsveig, 168 Cal, 664, [143 Pac. 1025]; Lake v. Superior Court, ante, p. 116, [200 Pac. 1041] ; Goodlett v. St. Elmo Investment Co., 94 Cal. 297, [29 Pac. 505]; First Nat. Bank v. Wakefield, 138 Cal. 561, [72 Pac. 151].)
The petition for a writ of supersedeas is denied.
Sloane, J., Lennon, J., Shaw, C. J., and Shurtleff, J., concurred.
Rehearing denied.
All the Justices concurred.
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- SEID PAK SING Et Al., Respondents, v. HARRY B. BARKER Et Al., Appellants
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