109 Neb. 812 | Neb. | 1923
This is a companion case with that of Rehmeyer v. Lysinger, ante, p. 805; the transaction growing out of the defalcation of Charles W. Wentz-, and his insolvent company-'at Aurora, -Nebraska. The nature of the case and the' pleading's and evidence herein áre substantially the same as in the Rehmeyer case. The judgment of the court 'below was the same in this case as in that, and a similar judgment must be entered in- this' court; In one or two particulars the instant case presents a situation even more favorable to appellees • than • did the- case referred to. We deem it neither necessary nor profitable
For more than five yéars after plaintiff took the assignment of this mortgage, so far as the evidence discloses, not a soul knew of the transaction except plaintiff and Wentz, and no one could know anything about it except as one or the other of these two individuals imparted the information. The plaintiff uttered not a word to any one concerning it, nor did Wentz. . She kept her assignment from the public records, and thereby its very existence from the knowledge of defendant and the world. In the meantime that she made Wentz her agent to collect her interest and look after the mortgage matter for' her stands admitted in the record. Under these circumstances, in the name of common sense and reason, why should plaintiff expect the mortgagor or any subsequent grantee to deal with any one but Wentz in the payment of the mortgage debt? Kile v. Zimmerman 105 Neb. 576, and cases cited in Rehmeyer v. Lysinger, supra. True, it is a hardship that plaintiff' should suffer this loss. It is also true that it would be a hardship that defendant should suffer a like loss.
For the reason stated in Behmeyer v. Lysinger, supra, the one whose negligence caused the injury should bear it. The decree of the lower court is in all things
Affirmed.