Court Opinion

ID: 3314427
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 17:31:35.525221+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:00:26.349899
License: Public Domain

THE plaintiff Barr in her complaint charges that she held a second trust deed on certain real property. The *Page 359 
defendant's attorney came to her home when she was sick and falsely told her that he had a deal by which he was to get the first trust deed paid off and also her second trust deed paid. Believing such statements to be true, the plaintiff says that she signed a release of her second trust deed. At the close of the evidence produced by the plaintiff Barr the trial court denied defendant's motion for a directed verdict in his favor. Presumably this was a ruling that the plaintiff had made a case sufficient to carry it to the jury and was not so defective as to be subject to dismissal for insufficient evidence, as the trial court thereafter ruled. Defendant Aarons thereupon introduced evidence in his own behalf which directly contradicted the evidence of the plaintiff. The trial court, on the evidence thus produced, took the case from the jury and gave judgment for the defendant Aarons. This was done, as the trial judge stated, largely upon the statement of defendant's former attorney as to the facts. The record as a whole sufficiently discloses that the evidence was in direct conflict, hence the trial court was in error in its ruling. The matter should have been submitted to the jury.
The judgment is accordingly reversed and the cause remanded for further proceedings in harmony herewith. *Page 360