Court Opinion

ID: 9829821
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 19:39:12.138949+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:06.934616
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
On rehearing A. C. Gonzales urges that he was subrogated to the rights of W. E. Whitehead against Sergio Gonzales in the amount he had advanced to Sergio toward the satisfaction of Whitehead’s claim against Sergio; that as we have held that A. C. was entitled to subrogation in the amount of his advancement actually applied to Whitehead’s claim, to-wit, $100, he was entitled to an extension of the first lien to secure such amount. As A. C., subsequent to such advancement, purchased Whitehead’s claim, which had been reduced to judgment, for the sum of $241, with establishment of the superior lien to secure that amount, his right of subrogation was measured by the rights of Whitehead under said judgment, no more and no *351less. A. C.’s right of subrogation in the sum of $100 was merged into the rights he acquired by purchase of the prior judgment for $241 in favor of Whitehead. He could not tack his $100 right of subrogation onto the amount of the judgment, and thereby burden the mortgaged property with a wider lien than that held by his assignor, the mortgagee.
Appellees’ motion for rehearing is overruled.