Gamble v. Canadian & American Mortgage & Trust Co.

55 P. 241, 6 Idaho 202, 1898 Ida. LEXIS 54

• Court: Idaho Supreme Court
• Decided: November 15, 1898
• Status: Published

Opinion

SULLIVAN, C. J.

— This action was brought to compel the satisfaction of a certain mortgage for damages and penalty provided for by the provisions of section 3364 of the Revised Statutes. It is alleged in the complaint that said mortgage was executed by one Chris G. Longeteig and wife in favor of the defendants Macmaster, and was thereafter assigned to the defendant the Canadian and American Mortgage and Trust Company; that on or about the tenth day of December, 1891, the said mortgagors sold and conveyed to the plaintiff, who is. the appellant here, the mortgaged premises. It is also alleged that the appellant has fully “paid and satisfied said notes and mortgage in so far as the holder of said notes and mortgage is concerned.” It is further alleged that, notwithstanding said mortgage and notes had been fully paid and satisfied, appellant did, on the fifteenth day of March, 1898, tender to said defendants above named, in lawful money of the United States, the sum of $500, and thereupon “demanded that the holder of said mortgage acknowledge and satisfy the said mortgage of record.” The defendants entered a general demurrer to said complaint, which was sustained by the court, and judgment of dismissal entered, from which judgment this appeal was taken. The order sustaining the demurrer and the judgment of dismissal are assigned as error.

The complaint does not state a cause of action. There was no error in sustaining the demurrer and entering the judgment of dismissal. The allegations of the complaint, to wit, “that the said plaintiff has fully paid and satisfied the notes and mortgage in so far as the holder of said notes and mortgage is concerned,” is not a sufficient allegation of the payment in full of the sum secured by the mortgage, as required in an action brought under the provisions of section 3364 of the Revised Statutes. As the record contains no error, the judgment of the court below must be sustained, and it is so ordered. Costs of the appeal are awarded to the respondents.

Huston and Quarles, JJ., concur.