Legal Opinion
Fontenot v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
California Court of Appeal
Decided August 11, 2011No. A130478PublishedCited by 121 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
MARGULIES, J.
Plaintiff Arlene Fontenot sued Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (Wells Fargo), Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS), and three other entities after she defaulted on a secured real estate loan and lost the property to foreclosure. In the fourth amended complaint, plaintiff alleged the foreclosure was unlawful because Wells Fargo had breached an agreement to forbear from foreclosure, and MERS made an invalid assignment of an interest in the promissory note relating to the property. Wells Fargo and MERS filed demurrers, based in part on recorded documents they…
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