Court Opinion

ID: 5471576
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-09 20:39:37.995828+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:33:20.239445
License: Public Domain

Haight, J.
—The defendants move for leave to pay into court such a sum: of money as to the court may seem proper to secure the plaintiff from the damages alleged in the complaint ; and upon- the paying into court of such money that then specific performance of the contract alleged in the pleadings be adjudged;
*453I am of the opinion that this court has not the power, upon motion, to grant the relief asked for; that a trial is necessary. It is not a case in which the action can be severed under section 511 of the Code. I know of no other provision providing for the disposing of issues upon motion, except in cases of sham and frivolous pleading. In this case there is an issue raised by the pleadings as to the proper construction to be given to the agreement of Ward Wheeler to loan $20,000. Specific performance cannot be decreed without disposing of this issue. This issue is separate and distinct from the one for damages, and can be disposed of only by trial;
Motion denied, with ten dollars costs."