Court Opinion

ID: 9828778
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 18:43:57.156554+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:53.042791
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On Rehearing.
In their motion for a rehearing, appellants insist with much earnestness that this court is in error in sustaining the trial court’s ninth finding of fact as to the charge of $58.-30 for advertising the notice of sale under the three several deeds of trust. The item is included in the $183.68. Appellants’ insistence leads us to state the evidence and our view more specifically than in the original opinion. There is only one deed of trust shown in the record. It- is in the usual form, and provides, among other things, that in default of payment the trustee shall take possession of and sell the land after giving notice by posting three notices in three public places, etc. It does not provide for advertisement in a newspaper. If that was the only deed of trust considered by the trial court in allowing the charge for the newspaper advertisement, it is clear that the $58.30 charged for advertising the notice of sale would be error. But the trustee testified:
“I sold that land under a trustee’s sale. I was the trustee that sold it. I advertised it and put up notices as the trust deed provided. I sold the land as provided for. * * • I paid the printer $58.50. * * The next money we got was from the sale of the land. That was a deed of trust on an ordinary form we had on that land. I advertised it in the paper by instructions of my attorney. I think we followed the conditions as laid down in that deed of trust. I will say we did do that; the best of my knowledge we did do that. To the very best of my knowledge, I would say that we followed the conditions of that deed of trust in regard to advertising. If the deed of trust says that I should have advertised it by placing three notices in public places one of which should be at the courthouse door, I did not comply with the instructions in the deed of trust. * * * I only made one sale of that land; made that sale under the original deed of trust. I do not remember whether it was advertised under the second deed of trust or not. I don’t remember how the transaction, just how* it was done. Xes; it was sold under this deed of trust and the title passed to the bank.”
Witness recalled and testified:
“We advertised under the second deed of trust, but only sold under the first deed of trust; only sold one time. * * * The trial and trustee sale was under all three of the deeds of trust. I was under the impression there were just two, but there were three. While it was advertised under the three deeds of trust, yet when the sale came off I offered it for sale under the first deed of trust. My attorney gave notice that there were tyro other deeds of trust on the land. The trustee’s deed was made under the first deed of trust. The proceeds were credited to all three of them.”
The trial court allowed as a proper charge the $58.30 paid by the trustee for advertising the notices of sale in the newspaper. The evidence does not show how notice of sale was to be made under the two deeds of trust not shown in- the record, nor does the evidence show the amount severally charged *581and paid for the notices. The date of the deed of trust shown in the record is November 17, 1910. The dates of the other two deeds of trust are not shown in the record. The statute in force on the date of the execution of the deed of trust shown in the record provides:
“All sales of real estate made in this state under powers conferred by any deed of trust or other contract lien shall be made in the county in which such real estate is situated. Notice shall be given as now required in judicial sales.” Article 3759, R. S.
Article 3757, R. S., provides:
“The time and place of making sale of real estate under execution, order of sale, or vendi-tioni exponas, shall be advertised by the officer by having the notice thereof published in the English language once a week for three consecutive weeks * * * in some newspaper published in said county.”
It then states what the notice shall contain and the newspaper charges for the. publication. It is true that in making a sale under a deed of trust the trustee must abide by and comply with the terms of the deed, but we cannot presume that the deeds of trust not shown or stated in' the record provided that notices of sale should be given by posting in three public places., and especially is this true where the trial court, after hearing the evidence, allowed the account for publication of notice. The deed executed by the trustee recites that:
“Notices have been posted one of which has been at the courthouse door, and that a copy of. same has been delivered to each of the grantors, etc., and also by advertising same for three weeks in the Comanche Vanguard, a weekly newspaper published in Comanche county, Tex.”
We have concluded that, in the condition of the record, we were not in error in sustaining the finding of the trial court in allowing the charge for publishing the notice of the sale.
The motion is overruled.