Court Opinion

ID: 9527971
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 03:35:54.593592+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:26:20.221820
License: Public Domain

ZIMMERMAN, Justice:
(dissenting).
I cannot join the majority in concluding that the trial court’s findings are clearly erroneous. Considering the evidence in a light most favorable to the trial court, I find it sufficient to support the trial court’s action. I fear that the majority has appraised the circumstances surrounding the loan in the bright gleam of hindsight rather than as the lender legitimately could have seen them at the time of the loan. I understand the sympathy one might feel for those who would be harmed by a ruling upholding the validity of Foothill’s security interest, but sympathy alone cannot warrant imposing, de facto, an extraordinarily high duty of inquiry on the lender to police the internal operations of a partnership that had the misfortune of having Granada as a general partner.
HALL, C.J., having disqualified himself, does not participate herein; BENCH, Court of Appeals Judge, sat.