Luttrell v. Columbia Casualty Co.

The respondent, Mrs. Ethel J. Luttrell, was induced by one John J. MacArthur, a real estate agent and notary public in Mill Valley, Marin County, to make a loan of $1,000 on two lots in Mill Valley owned by W. C. Wright of Los Angeles, in consummation of which MacArthur delivered to Mrs. Luttrell a deed of trust purporting to have been signed by the owner and his wife, and bearing MacArthur’s notarial certificate of acknowledgment, wherein he certified that W. C. Wright and Ethel E. W. C. Wright, known to him to be the persons whose names were subscribed to said trust deed, had personally…