Berger v. Steiner

This is an action to foreclose a deed of trust on real property executed by Margaret Hitching Perky in favor of respondent Margaret Steiner to secure a promissory note for $10,000. In the circumstances hereinafter related the deed of trust and note were purportedly assigned to plaintiff by Miss Steiner to secure a loan for $3,000. Prom a judgment cancelling and annulling the assignments and refusing plaintiff’s plea for foreclosure, this appeal is taken.

Mrs. Perky, elderly and in feeble health, requested her niece, Miss Steiner, to come from her home in the state of Washington and care for…