57 Cal. 8 | Cal. | 1880
This is a suit in equity to foreclose a mortgage on three separate and distinct parcels of land, situate in the county of Placer; and the mortgaged premises are described in the complaint as follows : “ All those claims known as the Dardanelles claims, situate near Forest Hill, and bounded on the north by Devil’s Canon, east by the Oro claims, south by the slope of the hill to the middle fork of the American River, and on the
Issue was taken on the facts alleged in the complaint; and after hearing the evidence, the following findings were filed by the Court:
“1. Jones and Dougherty owned the property described in the complaint, and borrowed $15,000 in gold coin from the plaintiff, and to secure the payment of the same, gave the plaintiff a mortgage on said property ; afterwards, Jones and Doughtery sold the property to McGillivray, one of the defendants, and as a part of the consideration of the purchase, McGillivray gave to the plaintiff the note and mortgage described in the complaint, and the old note and mortgage were canceled; and afterwards McGillivray sold the property to the defendant, the Dardanelles Consolidated Gravel Mining Company.
“ 2. There is due the plaintiff on the note described in the complaint the sum of $18,035 in gold coin of the United States.
“My conclusion is, that the plaintiff have judgment, as prayed for in tbe complaint.”
On these findings, a decree of foreclosure was entered on the 22nd day of November, 1878, which directed that the mortgaged premises should be sold in the following order: first, the ditch, then the Dardanelles claims, and lastly the Oro claims. The appeal is taken from the above-mentioned judgment; and the point made is, that the Court erred in directing and decreeing that tbe parcels of property mortgaged should be sold in the order stated.
It is claimed on behalf of the appellant, that §§ 684 and 694 of the Code of Civil Procedure are applicable to foreclosure
In the case now under consideration, the prayer was a general one, that the mortgaged property should be sold; and the finding was, that the property should be sold according to the prayer of the complaint. The decree was a departure from the usual form, and was not warranted either by the allegations of the complaint or the finding of the Court.
It is unnecessary for us to decide in this case whether §§ 684 and 694 are applicable to foreclosure sales; for, in our opinion, there was nothing in the case made by the pleadings or in the facts found by the Court which justified the direction in the decree which is complained of on this appeal.
The judgment is therefore reversed, and the cause remanded, with instructions to modify the decree in the manner indicated in this opinion.'
Myrick, J., Sharpstein, J., Ross, J., McKinstry, J., and Thornton, J., concurred.