Williams v. Pratt
California Court of Appeal
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Alameda County, and from an order denying a new trial. John Ellsworth, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of t'he court. J. B. Richardson, W. H. H. Hart, and Aylett R. Cotton, for Appellant.
1Opinion of the Court
Three different actions were consolidated and tried together. In each of them was involved the question of the ownership of a fund of nearly $4,000 in the hands of plaintiffs as trustees under a trust deed of certain real property held by them as security for the payment of an indebtedness of $8,000 due to one Robert Dalziel, Sr.
On the twenty-ninth day of April, 1904, George E. Faw and his wife made to said Dalziel a promissory note for $8,000, payable one year after date, bearing interest at eight per cent per annum, payable monthly, containing a stipulation that if the interest was not paid…
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