Stern v. Carlsrud

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hoyt, J.

— Honora T. Cleary was the owner of certain property in the city of Spokane which had been rented. The rents were collected for her, as they became due, by the firm of McCrea & Merryweather, her agents. The property had been mortgaged to Samuel R. Stern, and a large amount of interest on the mortgage was due and unpaid on the first day of September, 1893, upon which date Mrs. Cleary made and signed an order upon her agents, in the following form: ‘£ McCrea & Merryweather: Please pay to S. R. Stern rents of the Fourth and Lincoln street prop*606erty…