Lander v. Castro
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Fifteenth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. The plaintiff appealed. The note was for two thousand dollars, and bore interest at five per cent per month, interest payable at the end of every three months, and if not paid to be compounded, and bear the same rate of interest as the principal. The other facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Rhodes, J.:
The promissory note and mortgage in suit purport to have been executed by Juan Bautista Castro and José Francisco Castro, by Manuel Castro, their attorney in fact. Both instruments bear date August 27th, 1860, and the money therein mentioned was payable twelve months after-date. The action was brought August 26th, 1865, and the first amended complaint was filed January 2d, 1869. Manuel Castro was not made a defendant at the commencement of the action, but was brought in as a defendant by the first *500amended complaint. In 1857, as the complaint shows, Manuel was the owner…
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