Opinion ID: 245704
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Heading: The Failure to Award Interest

Text: 19 Appellant's fifth error relied upon is the failure of the trial court to award interest. The court failed to award interest because it found, as noted above, that the amount due appellant by appellee had been timely tendered by appellee. 20 The parties stipulated that tender was made as alleged in (defendant's) answer. 8 The answer recited a tender of $56,309.67 on the first cause of action 9 and $36,223.66 on the second. 10 These were the precise respective sums awarded to appellant totaling $92,533.32. 21 Appellant cites three cases in support of this point, none of which controls. Thus, Mutual Life Ins. Co. of New York v. Wells Fargo Bank, 9 Cir., 1936, 86 F.2d 585, 588, is not applicable, for there the tender was in a lesser amount than that ultimately found due. Appellant cites the case of Sanitary Farm Dairies v. Gammel, 8 Cir., 1952, 195 F.2d 106, for the general rule that when defendant attempts by pleading to prevent plaintiff from obtaining any recovery, the tender is not effective to stop interest. That valid rule is not here applicable, because defendant in answering both the first and second cause of action contained in plaintiff's complaint admitted there were due the sums found due (Tr. pp. 15, 16, 18) and tendered the same. In addition, appellee raised as a separate defense to the second cause of action only the defense of misrepresentation. Nor was the tender here made conditional, and hence the cited case of Maryland Casualty Co. v. Southern Pacific Co., 9 Cir., 1942, 119 F.2d 672, is inapplicable. 22 The law of California is controlling (Concordia Ins. Co. of Milwaukee v. School District, 1931, 282 U.S. 545, 51 S.Ct. 275, 75 L.Ed. 528) and is found in California Civil Code sections 1504 and 3287, California Code of Civil Procedure, § 2074, and such cases as Lineman v. Schmid, 1948, 32 Cal.2d 204, 195 P.2d 408; Happoldt v. Guardian Life Ins. Co., 1949, 90 Cal.App.2d 386, 203 P.2d 55, and, National Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa., v. California Cotton Credit Corp., 9 Cir., 1935, 76 F.2d 279, 289. 23 The judgment of the District Court is affirmed.